Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 682
mothers; My children like corn quite as well as thoseothers. And this is the rat, &c. Just as Puss shuts her eyelids, oh ! what does she hear ?Bow-wow ! and Bow-wow ! very close at her ear.Now away up a pole all trembling she springs,And there, on its top. all trembling she clings.And this is… … a-shaking their corn-poppers over the coals. Run quick, Mother Rat ! Oh, if you but knewHow slyly old Tabby is watching for you !Shes creeping so softly—pray, pray do not wait!She springs !—she has grabbed you !—ah. nowt is too late ! And this is the cat, &c. Too late, yes too late ! All your…
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