Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 515
e figureHopping along on nothing at all,And making straight for his silver ball. So he brandished his club, and shouted, Stop!But she curtly said, I am Hippety-Hop!I started to-day from the earth so gay,That spins down there like a silver top,And I must go on till they let me drop. So on she passed… … HE BRANDISHED HIS CLUB. That night, on earth there was great adoAmong the wise, astronomical crew,Who nightly peer through the heavens afar,For an asteroid, comet, or wandering star. For they saw a light that puzzled them sore,A comet or star never seen before.That moved along near the skys blue…
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