St. Nicholas, Volume 25Mary Mapes Dodge Scribner & Company, 1898 |
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ACROSTIC arms ball Bartholemy beautiful began boat Bobbles boys brave buccaneers called captain Chantry Christmas Cliff Cousin Jane cried DEAR ST Denise DOLL Draisine Durley exclaimed eyes father feet French girls Golden Horn Guy the Bow hand head Heady horse JACK HORNER Jamaica Jumbo keep king knew L'Olonnois lake Lakerim land laughed looked miles morning mother Muckle John Nagg never NICHOLAS night pirates Porto Bello Prince puck Punk Quint Quiz redans Reddy replied Richard Richard Neville river ROSALINE sailed SANTA CLAUS Sawed-Off seemed ship shouted side snow soon Spaniards Spanish Sparkler stick Stonefield stood stop sword tell thee thing Thomas Gifford thou thought tion told took town tree turned vessel Wartmont wheel Winslow word young Yuyu
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Page 128 - Fear not," said he ; (for mighty dread Had seized their troubled mind;) " Glad tidings of great joy I bring To you and all mankind.
Page 394 - Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Page 457 - He desired him to accept that slender pattern of the arms wherewith he had taken Porto Bello, and keep them for a twelvemonth ; after which time he promised to come to Panama and fetch them away.
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Page 91 - ... a raft, in the middle of the sea, with nothing to wear except a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must particularly remember the suspenders, Best Beloved), and a jack-knife, he found one single, solitary shipwrecked Mariner, trailing his toes in the water. (He had his Mummy's leave to paddle, or else he would never have done it, because he was a man of infinite-resourceand-sagacity...
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Page 457 - Morgan, desiring him to send him some small pattern of those arms wherewith he had taken with such violence so great a city.