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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 181

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his dame,When the French fleet sailing cameInto Massachusetts bay, We must make a feast straightway,Spread a board of bounteous cheerFor the gallant admiral here.Nothing loath, the three-years bride,Fair Dame Dorothy, complied,And with fine housewifely zealPlanned at once a bounteous mealFit to set… … there they milked the grazing herd AT THE FAIR YOUNG JVIADAms WORD. 648 dorothv Hancocks breakfast-party. 649 Certain of his midshipmen?Who can paint the dire dismayOf Dame Dorothy that day ?Thirty guests she d bidden there;Now so late as this prepareFor a hundred more, at least ? There they milked…

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