Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 186
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… … According to age the sages spokeIn senile wheeze or youthful croak,Advising horseshoes, tolling bells,Ancient charms, old witches spells,Hazel rods and boiling water,Or, seventh son of seventh daughter,Would surely keep the pygmies quietIf His Majesty would but try it. Pygmies clinging to roof and…
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