Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 33
the raspberry bushes through They tread the thistles under;They gather round the trembling tree, Intent on scarlet plunder. O, dainty little tree ! She stands Like a beleaguered city;They bend and break with feet and hands, The jubilant banditti ! Then off they march in scarlet line, And blaze… … «f SPRAY OF RICE—FROM NATURE. ONCE upon a time, and the time dates backmany hundreds of years, when mankind hadnothing to eat save a few small vegetables, andwhen earth rejoiced in no wide fields of goldengrain, a small party of Dyaks, who were thendwelling in the tangled forests of the island…
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