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Title: St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878
No 1, Nov 1877

Author: Various

Editor: Mary Mapes Dodge

Release Date: January 14, 2006 [EBook #17513]

Language: English

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ST. NICHOLAS:

SCRIBNER'S ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE

FOR GIRLS AND BOYS,

CONDUCTED BY

MARY MAPES DODGE.

VOLUME V.

NOVEMBER, 1877, TO NOVEMBER, 1878.

SCRIBNER & CO., NEW YORK.

Copyright by SCRIBNER & CO., 1878.

PRESS OF FRANCIS HART & CO.

NEW YORK

CONTENTS.

Child-Queen, A. (Illustrated by Alfred Fredericks) Cecilia Cleveland 1

Chased by Wolves. (Illustrated) George Dudley Lawson 3

Jingle: There was an Old Person of Crewd. (Illustrated by K. W. P.) 6

Mollie's Boyhood. (Illustrated by George White) Sarah E. Chester 7

*The Largest Volcano in the World. (Illustrated) Sarah Coan 13

Making it Skip. Verse. (Illustrated by Thomas Moran) M. M. D. 15

*Willow Wand, The. Poem. (Illustrated) A. E. W. 16

*Story that Wouldn't be Told, The. (Illustrated) Louise Stockton 18

Polly: A Before-Christmas Story. (Illustrated) Hope Ledyard 19

Boggs's Photograph. Picture. 21

Lord Mayor of London's Show, The. (Illustrated) Jennie A. Owen 22

My Girl. Poem. John S. Adams 25

Mars, the Planet of War. (Illustrated by the Author)
Richard A. Proctor 26

*Domestic Tragedy, A. In Two Parts (Illustration) 31

Bell-Ringers, The Stickleback. (Illustrated by James C. Beard)
C. F. Holder 31

Cricket on the Hearth, The. Poem. (Illustrated )Clara Doty Bates 33

How I Weighed the Thanksgiving Turkey. G. M. Shaw