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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 521

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There was an ancient^jiwanlxyWho played upon the fiddle, M^3£| Sometimes high, sometimes low. Sometimes in the middle;And all day long beneath the shade jf*He lunched on prunes and marmalade; ^But what the tunes were which he played ^Is certainly a riddle m … ^Three tigers,gauntjfeXy. and ravenous,: Came from thegloomy wood,Intent to slaythe tiddler,But hismusic <>?..>---- good;So roundabouthim oncetheyfiled,Till,by the•^melodyeguiled,*They satthem soft-clown andSmiled,As onlytigers could. 508 A TIGER TALE. 509 And thus beguiled, those tigers…

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