Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 77
t prop is his leniency.And, though men, now and then, scratch their noses, maybeA kings eyes should be wide enough open to seeThere are many worse evils than shaving. Then the king arose meekly and said that heguessed He had paid pretty dear for his share of thejest. That his edict was wrong, he… … And would be his Chief Chancellor, with a be-questGiving him all the Sari-Ann shaving. Then there came by the dozen, there came by the score,Ninety thousand, nine hundred and seventy-four(So the censuses said; but it surely was more)Wanting shaves who had never been shaven be-fore,All awaiting…
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