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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 590

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my Alice ! T is no fault of hersIf her willful little mistress Other dolls prefers.Did she pull her pretty hair out ? Did she break her crown ?Did she tear her arms and legs off? Poor Jemima Brown ! Little hands that did the mischief, You must do your bestNow to give the poor old dolly Comfortable… … When thestorks came,the springcame too. Tillthen the skieshad been grayand the aircold and raw,while the leaf-budson the branchesseemed afraid topeep from their cov-erings. But when the call of the storks was heard,and the click of their large white wings, the leavestook courage, unrolled their…

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