Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 278
bat like a candle-snuff, Shuffled-up, toes and all!Off went the twig and off went the tree, Scurrying down to the ground !Nothing was left, save the bumble-bee, Worrying thus to be found ;Yet snug as a bug in the roots of the tree,Where he grumbled ; What a catastrophe !I was simply thunder-struck… … 748 THE TOLLY OLD KNIGHT. [August,
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