. St. Nicholas [serial]. plans on Sunday to dirty up the dryingclothes that mothers washed on Monday. It was one Tuesday, bright and clear, onwhich our story falls. Those robbers hadbeen out all night to make some cruel stripped a score of clotheslines andhad made a snowy pile of dainty gowns andaprons white, and frocks of every roaring robbers danced and prancedabout that pile with glee, their horrid yells were bad to hear, their grins were bad tosee. But what was worse, they took thoseclothes, all clean and spotless white, andthrew them into pools of mud, then pokedth
. St. Nicholas [serial]. plans on Sunday to dirty up the dryingclothes that mothers washed on Monday. It was one Tuesday, bright and clear, onwhich our story falls. Those robbers hadbeen out all night to make some cruel stripped a score of clotheslines andhad made a snowy pile of dainty gowns andaprons white, and frocks of every roaring robbers danced and prancedabout that pile with glee, their horrid yells were bad to hear, their grins were bad tosee. But what was worse, they took thoseclothes, all clean and spotless white, andthrew them into pools of mud, then pokedthem out of sight. The last and daintiestpetticoat had just gone in the mire, and thosebad robbers stood about with chortless grim. and dire; when suddenly they heard a sound,a buzzing in the sky, a whirling and a snort-ing that might surely terrify most anybody,and those rogues just trembled in their boots,and half a dozen ran away with terrorstricken hoots. Down swooped a DRAGON,snorting fire, and, tucked from wing to wing,were thirty-seven tots whose shouts justmade the welkin ring. Behind them, with agraceful curve, came IVORY aeroplanewhich through the mists of morning left ashining IVORY train. Unload, cried Gnif, theres work to not a bit too soon. We must com-pletely conquer all these robber men by to the earth, ye heroes brave, no rob-ber men can cope with heroes such as you,my dears, well armed with IVORY SOAP. Thus spake brave Gnif, that dauntlessGnome —but little Readers, wait until nextmonth, I have indeed strange doings to relate.{To be continued.}
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