Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 173
a piping shrill And tiny voice commanding plain, Come, good folk, work with might and main. The gentry have suffered a grievous thing;A thief has ruined our dancing-ring: ; And Ill thank you kindly, and keep my word.With that such a clapping of hands was heard! And a Bravo, Lanty! Build betweenThe… … I ASK YOUR PARDON, GENTLEMEN. For Lanty has stolen our ancient right,And his house must fall before midnight. But Lanty is out at the doorway then: I ask your pardon, gentlemen, For building on any place you own;But if to-night you 11 let me alone, As Lanty had promised, so he did;And digging the…
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