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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 685

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HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. [August, When flowers are awaking, and birds full of glee,At the top of the morning our wedding shall be !And since friends we have none, for this wedding of oursNo guests shall there be, save the birds and the flowers; Next morning, while sleeping his sweetest sleep,The… … GOOD-MORROW, SIR PRIEST ! WILL YOU MARRY US TWO ? And we 11 stand out among them, in sight ofthem all, Where the pink and white blooms of the apple-tree fall. Od zooks ! cried the priest, what a wedding we 11 seeTo-morrow, at sun-rising, under the tree ! And this was the cock that crowed in the…

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