Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 490
to eat every morning. After a while these were notenough for his early morning diversion, so his mothersuggested that he should compose a nonsense verse torepeat to her when she came in to bid him gocd-morn-ing. Here is the verse he had all ready to recite to herthe first morning: There was an old… … drawers, and swept up the chips and shavings which hadgathered during the day. Then, every day or two thesewere carried away and carefully burned. Each day anew piece of toy furniture was added to the row ofdainty designs on the bureau. Arthur asked to havethem placed so that he could see them all…
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