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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 149

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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 were the… … pa. v., By Edmund Clarence Stedman. Here where the curfew Still, they say, rings,Time rested long ago, Folding his wings;Here, on old Norwichs Out-along road,Cousin Lucretia Had her abode. Norridge, not Nor-wich (See Mother Goose),Good enough English For a songs use.Side and roof shingled, All of a…

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