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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 474

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And underneath this very bushMy gold is placed with care. Go, fetch a spade and dig, and youShall surely find it there. Ho, Leprecawn! ho, Leprecawn! You think to trick me well!This bush from any other bush How, surely, shall I tell ?A mile this field of boliauns Doth stretch each way, alack!How… … Good Master, ho! good Master, now —My garter, russet red,I fasten to this single bush,The Leprecawn then said; And when to dig you shall come back,You still shall find it there.I will not touch that same again,Good Master, I declare! A Leprecawn neer broke his word To any living man;And so I set…

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