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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 320

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nd ditches lie.While city chaps with reels come downAnd line enough to gird the town,And flies of stranger shape and hueThan ever Mother Nature knew —With horns like crickets, tails like mice, Ji^„ And plumes like birds of Para-dise.Thus well prepared for sunny skyOr cloudy weather, wet or dry,They… … Another said : I ve often lain In secret nook through sun and rain, With bated breath and peeping eyes, To watch an angler fighting flies, And thought, when thus he stood to bear The torture from those pests of air, While others stay to dig suppliesOf bait that anglers highly prize,—Such kind as…

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