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Fresh flowers for my children (1842)

Gordon, Katharine Parker, Mother · Boston : Samuel G. Simpkins · leaf 63

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live in agony and endanger the lives ofall the neighbourhood. So Rover, the sagacious andaffectionate Rover, was shot. He was lamented by allthe family. 58 GEORGE AND KOVER. One of Georges and Rovers favorite resorts was agrove of oaks, back of the house where Georges fatherlived ; in this grove… … ( 59 ) THE PET LAMB. One chilly morning in the spring,When all was still and calm, George listened, for he thought he heardThe bleating of a lamb. Rover was with him at the time ; T was plain he heard it too,He looked so earnest, pricked his ears, As dogs will always do. Twas not the usual tone of…

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