Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 84
, their courage showed, But twenty times a measured mile They whirled away in single file. FOR MIDDLE-AGED LITTLE FOLKS. /I Or bunched together in a crowd If width of road or skill allowed. At times, while rolling down the grade, Collisions some confusion made, For every member of the band. At… … Though some, perhaps, were not designedFor labor of that special kind. But Brownies are the ones to bear Misfortunes with unruffled air ; So on through rough and smooth they spun The foreman looked at this and that,And freely blamed the watchman, Pat,Who must have been asleep in bedWhile such…
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