Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 199
He took a bee-line southward till to Mexico he came,He found there a volcano with a most eccentric name,And he built him there a cottage, did this Hezekiah Bettle,He built it near the summit of Mount Popocatapetl. 6/4 A BACHELOR OF MAINE. But one evening, as it happened, there came by So he tapped… … THE SPELLING-MATCH. By Alice Maude Ewell. They d all sat down but Bess and me, I surely thought I d win.To lose on such an easy word, It was a shame and sin!We spelled the longest in the book, The hardest ones — right through, Xylography, and pachyderm, And gneiss, and phthisic, too. I spelled…
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