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The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)

Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 176

An illustration from The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language, 1910, leaf 176 — po three doors off thechaise was stayed.Where they did all getin.Six precious souls, and allagogTo dash through thick and thin. Smack went the whip, round went the wheels, Were never folk so glad ;The stones did rattle underneath, As if Cheapside were mad. John Gilpin, at his horses side. Seized… … So down he came ; for loss of time. Although it grieved him sore.Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more. T was long before the customers Were suited to their mind,When Betty, screaming, came down-stairs, The wine is left behind! Good lack ! quoth he, • yet bring it me,My…

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