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FROM SHORE TO SHORE.
4 FINE STEEL RNsRAvING,
RY n. IT. STIJART ~ .
From a Painting by Clarence M Dobe

From Painting by Clarence IA. Doben.
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Ing with pond lilies her admirer, young man,
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THE BABE OF BETHLEHEM.
FINE srEEI. ENGRAVING.

A FINE STEEL ENGRAVING,
Very Beautifully Representing the Maturity Of our
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In the days of Augustus Caesar. an edict went
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up from Galilee to Bethlehem, to be taxed. (The
Narrative continues, as recorded in the I'd chapter
of st. Luke.l ~ .-sei-I ..Et# q
The artist has chosen this interesting scene.
The Babe in the Manager, Mary (her face beaming
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