Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 533
year, one time ofsupreme happiness. It is when the short winterdays begin to lengthen toward the flowery spring.Then, if from the steamer-deck you should hap-pen to see, standing upon the wharf, a tall, eager-eyed boy, holding by the hand a curly-headedlittle picaninny, and with a squirrel or an… … Bv Charles Stuart Pratt. VER a daisy clump, witha flying leap, it came,and lighted on a cloverleaf. It was no otherthan Hoppergrass. The quaint longlimbs twinkled just be-KV; fore Chubs half-shuteyes ; the whir tickledhis ears, — Hopper-grass, as a whole,tickled his jolly pleas-ant-natured…
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