Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 148
e way of his barbarous beak!Beware of his talons — his great big claws ! While everywhere in the tumult flewFeathers yellow, and brown, and blue.And the story ends by saying: HereA boy who had long been watching near,With bow and arrow, sent a dartThat pierced the tyrant through the heart! And so,… … WHEN THE MAN IN THE MOON WAS A LITTLE BOY. By Henrietta Christian Wright. When the man in the moon was a little boy, All the mountains were little hills, The oceans were tiny little lakes, The rivers were little rills. The elephants were the size of mice, The eagles the size of bees; The robins…
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