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 452
mall cottage;But she, poor woman ! housed alone.T was well enough when summer came,The long, warm, lightsome summer day,Then at her door the scanty dameWould sit, as any linnet gay. But when the ice our streams did fetter,Oh. then how her old bones would shake!You would have said, if you had met… … O joy for her ! wheneer in winterThe winds at night had made a rout;And scattered many a lusty splinter,And many a rotten bough about. Yet never had she, well or sick,As every man who knew her says,A pile beforehand, turf or stick,Enough to warm her for three days. 412 THE BOOK OF POETRY. Now, when…
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