Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 359
his isI was cut out cross-grained as a colt,Which makes me so vicious and fractious,That I kick, rear, plunge, shy, and bolt! Fol-de-rol-lol-de-ray. Go bring here the man from the circusWho thinks that he knows how to ride,Who is called on the bills the Horse-Breaker,Oh, call him ! I 11 lower his… … THE FRACTIOUS ROCKING-HORSE. I was made by a left-handed goblin,Broken-nosed, with a cast in his eye ;T is impossible ever to tame me,Give it up, now, you jockeys, dont try ! Fol-de-rol-lol-de-ray. Elfie laughed heartily at the conceit of therocking-horse, and gave him an imitation applewhich she…
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