Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 516
l the others laughed him to scorn.And said, No girl that ever was bornCould move so fast oer the skys blue UfWith a skip, and a jump, and a hippety-hcI So they marked its course, and measurt speed. They traced its orbit, and found indeed.From the rate it traveled among the splpIt would reach the… … THE WISE MEN BROUGHT THEIR TEIESCOPES OUT. ard is the fate of this willful girl;thousand years to skip and whirl,thousand years before she can stop 0 eat a crumb or to drink a drop. This is the story of Hippety-Hop,Who once got going and could nt stop,Until she was punished, and made to smartFor…
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