Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 21
uoth I, Goodday to you. Grizzle.An what have youthere ? Whereupon shecame down out othe clouds, an fella-smirking so bash-fully, with head onone side. An firstshe said t was buta small thing, nextto nothing at all,an not worth any-bodys note ; yet, for all that talk, I might dis- glib enough, how… … so I MADE BOLD TO ASK HER, WHAT WAS A MUSE? poetry-ode shed been a-writing in honor ofGeneral Bacon. Now, when that I asked her to read it out(for I was right curious to hear the stuff), lo!she did thus begin: O Muse ! descend — an here she wascatched with a cough, being tickled in her throat,with…
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