Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 477
te bad little boys I see ! This was Jack Horners brief soliloquyAs he sat by the chimney on a stool(It is quite clear that Johnny was no fool)Eating a piece of Christmas pie; and heCould not help feeling —very prop-erly—Thankful that he was one who, as a rule,Had his good things, while other boys… … Some people live in houses, some in trees, And some, I ve heard, in shoes ; t was in a shoe•. The matron lived whose story I tell you;A Her family was large and could not please The mother always ; nay, how they did tease -And vex her till she knew not what to do!\ I wonder not—t was an enormous…
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