Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 331
III — AND HEAVE TO! IV —AND THEY CALL THAT A * SAFETY ! BY HELEN HAY. A merry Mongoose was marching alongBy the-banks of the nice old Nile. Where the stream was impassable He met an irascible,Coy old Crocodile. Do you think I would eat you,That you cover your face with fright ? Then the Crocodile… … But the giddy Mongoose was an innocentthing,So he paused for a friendly talk. I must cross the river,He said with a shiver; And, really, I dont dare walk. So wont you be kind, and tote me across ?—I weigh but a tiny mite.You scary old creature, And he said, with a sneer or twoLit with a leer or…
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