Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 475
462 THE GIFTED ANT. [April, She set to work without delay, And wrote some cards thaf very day ; And hung them in the grass — a planTo catch the sluggards eye. They ran As follows : -^^r^^m » Sluggards who desire An education to acquire Will find it w ell to call to- day Upon Professor Ant, B. A.… … She placed at every turn that ledTo her abode, a sign which read, Go to the Ant, and hung besideHer picture, highly magnified. Said she, At least that cannot failTo bring a Turtle, Sloth, or Snail, A Dormouse, or a Boy, to leam Their livelihood (and mine) to earn! I 11 teach them, first of all, to…
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