Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 131
? Lisped the rain; they ve had a pleasant wintersnap.Lightly to their doors it crept.Listened while they soundly slept;Gently woke them with its rap-a-tap-a-tap .Quickly woke them with its rap-a-tap-a-tap ! Soon their windows opened wide,-Everything astir inside ;Shining heads came peeping out, in… … By Ellen M. Hutchinson. Nearly a hundred years ago, when your lit-tle great-grandfather was bedecked with ruffledbreeches and large frilled collars, and your littlegreat-grandmothers long skirts flapped about herheels, as did the long skirts of the lady whomshe called Honored Mamma, there was…
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