Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 247
children are ready for bed, they stand before the pretty fireand take each others hands. Then they dance around and around upon thesoft rug, and mama claps her hands and sings: Oh, for the merry barefoot dance!Barefoot children skip and prance, Skip and prance, white feet glance,Oh, for the merry… … About four hundred years ago, my friends, thisnow highly intelligent earth, while revolving roundthe sun (though its inhabitants did nt know it atthe time), rolled right into a date that has becomeone of the most famous periods of its kind everknown. I allude to the year 1492. I 11 venture tosay,…
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