Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 127
nly to amusefools, those powers must be taken from them.You have made the agreement and must abide byit. Drop your wands ! The wands fell upon the sand. Go home, and work ! They went home and worked, and neither ofthem married a princess or lived happily everafter. Merlin laughed softly to himself,… … THEY put me in the great spare bed, and there they bade me sleep :I must not stir; I must not wake ; I must not even peep !Right opposite that lonely bed, my Christmas stocking hung;While near it, waiting for the morn, my Sunday clothes were flung. I counted softly, to myself, to ten, and ten times…
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