Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 328
all them tulips — Could these a secret hold ?They know where lies, these gentlemen, The rainbows pot of gold,Which one might find and grow quite rich, If but these tulips told! I might, had I the secret, Wear finer clothes myself;But when they come to visit me I have no thought of pelf,Before these… … BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. By Brander Matthews. At the beginning of the last century, whenQueen Anne sat on the throne of Great Britain,there were ten British colonies strung along theAtlantic coast of North America. These colo-nies were various in origin and ill-disposed oneto another. They were young,…
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