Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 317
could read.Said she: Dear me! I d best begin To stir myself indeed ! (A pretty pickle she was in, With five-score guests to feed ! The artful Ant sat up all nightA thinking oer and oer, How she could make her scanty store, Enough to feed five-score. (Between ourselves, I think she might Have… … THE ARTFUL ANT. 305 To smile in a peculiar way,As if—(but you may glean From seeing tragic actors playThe kind of smile I mean.)
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