Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 319
havefound her ! my dear little Lillie ! And full in the open door-way, with the moonlight falling softly aaround her, brightening the halo of her goldecurls, the grand old dog standing by her side, knethe little Gretchen with her arms about the kickissing the tufted white head at every word. Thold… … THE MOUSE-KING MOUNTS HIS STEED. Far back within an age remote. Which common history fails to note, When dogs could talk, and pigs could sing, And frogs obeyed a wooden king, There lived a tribe of rats so mean. That such a set was never seen. For during all the livelong day They fought and…
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