Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 162
ng to her ! i876.j PICCOLA. But Piccola never doubted at all That something beautiful must befall Every child upon Christmas-day, And so she slept till the dawn was gray. And full of faith, when at last she woke,She stole to her shoe as the morning broke ;Such sounds of gladness filled all the… … - 3S Now such a story who ever heard ?There was a little shivering bird !A sparrow, that in at the window flew,Had crept into Piccolas tiny shoe ! How good poor Piccola must have been ! She cried, as happy as any queen,While the starving sparrow she fed and warmed.And danced with rapture, she was…
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