Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 488
But. the wisest couple of all the threeSaid: We will a traveling circus be!You, cried the wife, the bear must play,Up on the ladder you ought to stay,And I 11 carry the club, because, you knowI 11 have to beat you, your tricks to show.1 … So the man in the ulster was frozen stiff,While his wife did nothing but fan and sniff.The hunter was stung by a cross old spider,As he very imprudently sat down beside her,And his wife, who was gathering webs for wool,Used him to make up a basket full. But the man who learned the bear to play…
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