The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-18

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THE INGoLDsBY. LEGENDS, Or M1RTH AND
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This edition of the familiar Ingoldsby
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"A sHERBURNE QUEST. By Amanda NJ Doug
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This is another of Miss Douglas sher-
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! House, which her, mother gave to the first
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| narrative.
A NONSENSE ANTHOLOGY. Collected by Caro-.
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This is as it's name indicates, a COL
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GEAR a good many names femous iii liter
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Among the rhymes submitted. were the
following: ...-
! ~.'.. If half the road was ma de of .ne-..
| &c.,. The other half of bread. .-..s
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| mere are some OF the old familiars in
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4 Illustrated from Photographs and drawings b,
! Jessie B. Jones. Boston: Little, Brown &
/ The translator says that Lott as Juliar
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4 A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, B,
William Vaughn Moody and r.. y. Lowell of tb,
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The authors of this volume are, assist
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