Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 269
y !I d rather be my honest selfThan any made-up daisy. You re nicer in your own bright gown,The little children love you ;Be the best buttercup you can,And think no flower above you. Though swallows leave me out of sight. We d better keep our places;Perhaps the world would all go wrong With one too… … [Two youthful goats, belonging to families of high degree among the goat tribes, once encountered each other upon a narrow tree-trunkwhich spanned a mountain torrent. Said the goat from the East to the goat from the West: Go back and make way. I am an importantgoat, a goat of degree. It is but…
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