Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 443
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… … ; %jS. ■ A REAL AIR-CASTLE. By Chas. B. Hudson. Think of a home made of air-bubbles floatingon the surface of the water, guarded by a fiercefather some hundreds of times larger than hischildren, who, when they stray away, rushesout and gobbles them up in his cavernousmouth and hurls them back into…
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