Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 242
ny planBecause it s the home of the pop-corn man! How does he sleep, if he sleeps at all ?He must roll up like a rubber ball,Or like a squirrel, and store himselfAll huddly-cuddly under the shelf.If he wanted to stretch hed scarce have spaceIn his bare little, spare little, square little place.He… … I know he s wise by the ~- way he looks, For he s just like the men I ve seen in books, With a pop! pop ! pop! in his covered pan,With his hair worn off, and his squinty eyes, This queer little, dear little pop-corn man ! TO!lfflR heard last summer a true story, whichseemed to me worthy the ear of…
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