The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 150
Ill From absolute inanity, The cat approachedinsanityTo see him slide thebanisters, so rash; But once, on that ma-hogany, While trying to tobog-gan, heUpset his calculationswith a crash! … IV And since that sad disasterHe has gone about in plaster-Not of Paris, like a nice Italian toy;But the kind the doctor uses,When the bumps and cuts and bruisesOvercome a little, regular, live boy !
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