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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 488

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A SCIENTIFIC JINGLE. Dear Jack-in-the-Pulpit : Dont you Really think that it is timeSome one sent a scientific Item, couched in jingling rime?I do. I ve just read a paper By John Lubbock (whose odd nameWill sound queer as Amos Cottles When it fills the Trump of Fame).It was from * The Senses,… … We might call this fish, Policeman, Were it not that all its preyWhen t is caught at once is eaten In a most illegal way !There s another deep-sea Angler, Which hangs out a danger-light,A red lantern in the ocean Shining softly, glowing bright.

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