| Vol. II.—No. 74. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | Price Four Cents. |
| Tuesday, March 29, 1881. | Copyright, 1881, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
THE MAGIC WAND.
A STORY OF OLD WILMINGTON.
BY HOWARD PYLE.
In the good old days of the city of Wilmington, some seventy or eightyyears ago, there lived a couple in that quaint little Quaker town by thename of Vertz, better known as Dutch Dolly and her husband.
Dutch Dolly had a truck patch wherein she raised vegetables—peas,radishes, potatoes, and beans—supplying the better part of the townwith such produce. Her husband was a tailor, and is described in thechronicles of the town as sitting cross-legged on his bench opposite thewindow that looked out on the stony street.
Dutch Dolly was a woman of much importance of demeanor, and is describedas being the admiration of the rising generation when, on a fair-day orholiday, she appeared in "a black velvet hood, a bodice of the same, apetticoat of superior blue cloth, the whole dress trimmed with gold-laceand t