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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 342

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 342 — WHAT MOTHER SAYS.By Lizbeth B. Comins. NOW here s a hand-glass, let me try If I can this time seeJust one of all those funny things My mother sees in me. She says my eyes are violets,—. And what she says is true,—But I think they are just two eyes; Dont they look so to you ? She says my lips are… … She says each cheek is like a rose; And this I surely know,I never would believe it,— but What Mother says is so. She says my teeth are shining pearls; Now that s so very queer,If some folks said it, why, I d think,— But then, t was Mother dear. I only see a little girl, With hair that s rather…

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