Potter, Miriam Clark, 1886-1965, Balcom, Sophia T · New York : E.P. Dutton & Co. · leaf 176
started back, but just then there was a greatscurrying through the underbrush, and the two littlerabbits came rushing toward her. We have had a terrible scare I they cried. Wesaw a fox, and he chased us. Oh, Mother, he mighthave caught us I Just see how we are trembling.Mother, please let us go… … THE RUNAWAY A^-IORSE that walks straight down a streetAnd drags a wagon, safe and neat,Is just a hocse; but when it startsAnd rushes past the other cartsAnd makes the butcher chase with criesAnd kicks the dust in peoples eyes,Its not a horse at all, they say—It then becomes a runaway. Id feel like…
Children's poetry, American
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