Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 470
T night he sought the van-quished Sage,Whose welcome wasbut chilling.■ Well, sir, he cried,with twinkling eye, Are you convinced ?Or shall we tryThe game again ?—//« willing ! No answer did the Sage vouchsafe,But changed his clothes insorrow. And from the grinning Fool he ran,To rise again, a… … I HAVE a little laddie,—such a tiny little laddie! — Yet hes vowed to me quite stoutly that he 11 some day be a man. And Ive told him that I knew it. And felt sure that he would do it;But, really, hes so little that I dont see how he can ! 448 EASTER MORNING. [April, l885.] EASTER MORNING. 449
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