Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 185
We offer riches, royal thanks,Our daughters hand, to that wise oneWhose skill suggests what must be doneTo banish pygmies and their playOver the hills and far away! The King no sooner finished speaking,Thau, all around, derisive squeakingShowed the pygmies would kindly tryTo keep the council from… … Pounding his scepter on the table,The Monarch quelled the awful babel,Bawling out at the top of his lungs, Silence ! Order ! Hold your tongues! Drive them out?—a task for boys!Pygmies run from any noise;But when the pests are driven away,The problem is—to make them stay! (The pygmies here renewed…
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