Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 53
red, the nights had grown chill,But warm was the day on the south of the hill. T was there with our bags and our baskets we went,And searching the dry leaves we busily bent:The chestnuts were big and the beech-nuts were small,But both sorts are welcome to boys in the fall. And when, in the ashes… … HERE he stood, on the nur-sery mantel-piece, grinnand grinn, as if he d grinthe hairt out iv him, asNora, the nurse, said, andnobody seemed to knowhow he came there. Hemight have walked all theway from China, and set himself up there of hisown accord, for all that Oode, or Teddy, or Mar-ion, or the…
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