Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 632
As if a bird had carried word, Like birds the boys thus congregate ; To join the rest leaped merry Will,And, puffing, swelled the count to eight. … Time quickly flew down by the shore,When boys and raft had fun so fine. But hark ! Too plainly now they heardThe clock ! That made the doleful nine.
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