Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 442
with itsjabbering Zulus, itspersistent peddlersfrom the Orient, itschattering mounte-banks, and its placardsannouncing in plainEnglish certain WildWestern performancesof Pawnee Bill.To compare the Ant-werp Exposition with the Great Fair at Chicagowould be as foolish as to compare the littlehouses… … Beside the sea the children go On white bare feet through the silver sand,And the little waves run, laughing, up As if to catch them where they stand.And they build them houses of rainbow shells;They dig in the sand the deepest of wells.But always and ever — alack and a day! —The waves wash houses…
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