Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 436
assortment grows there Than the best confectioners keep ;Who knows, now, but you have been there And eaten them—in your sleep ? Nine little tailors stitched away,All cross-legged, and in a row.How do you like it? they were asked;Oh, said they, it is just sew-sew. A firefly with his tiny lamp Played… … •Says old Ben to young Ben,A capn youll be some day;Even now you hitches your little breechesIn a nautical kind o way! While a little man one night talked about—I ve forgotten just what — the lights went out.Humph! said the little man; that will do; So all of the people went out too! Era tikis…
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