hout a bonnet, In a robe of crimson satin, With some pretty dots upon it ? All the day she haunts the garden,Mid the roses, pinks, and lilies. Under cooling; leaves she loiters,When the drowsy noon so still is. Then, on busy cpiest, she hurriesTill the dewy twilight closes ; Bees may hum, and birds… … THE FIRE-CRACKER. It was the first Fourth of July that Bertie could remember.His mother gave him a box of torpedoes, and told him he mightsit on the front steps and amuse himself with them. Bertie thought this was great fun for a while. Then he becameinterested in some boys in the street who were…
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