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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 342

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, In Olla, the Island of Ease,A personage, dignified, florid, and bland,Came hurriedly out to them, hat in hand. The Monarch of Olla regrets, said he, This manifestation of industry,Desires you will stop it immediately,If you please. Objects to your chipping the royal rocks,Dislikes scientific… … He left the two scholars, perplexed anddistressed, In the lurch. This Monarch of Olla, I hear, said one, Is only a child, forsooth!Yet a sovereign child is a sovereign still.And has, without doubt, a tyrannical will; 33° THE MONARCH OF OLLA. [Mar. And. how to deal with the infant mindIs a difficult…

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