Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 853
ched dry land, When he crept along quite silentlyTo a mound in the hot sand, Where the crocodile had buried Her eggs, because she knewThe torrid sun would hatch them Within a month or two.Now, the savage mother-reptile Was nowhere to be seen,For she was calmly slumbering Among the rushes green. A… … Who, that morning, for her breakfastAte up his brothers twain ; So he pondered long arid deeplyHow to pay her back again. Then boldly he marched forward,And stamped upon that nest, And jumped and kicked and pranced about,As if he were possessed, I877-] THE REVENGE OF THE LITTLE HIPPOPOTAMUS. 8l7…
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