Potter, Miriam Clark, 1886-1965, Balcom, Sophia T · New York : E.P. Dutton & Co. · leaf 341
Mr. Cheesy was saying: Well, well I Goodnessgracious! Peter wasthinking what they coulddo. After a while he gotup and walked down thehill. Down toward a pinktree where a bird wassinging a loud, happysong, a big thing wasfalling. Peter saw thatit was red and that itlooked a little like anenormous… … He shook the sock and the Chees-ies tumbled out. THE GIANTS SOCK it like a tent. We could live in it! thought Peter,and ran to tell his father. When that man saw it he said: Well, well, andGoodness gracious! all the more. In an hourthey had the big tent up, fastened to trees, and alltheir furniture…
Children's poetry, American
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