Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 126
VEIN. Ill With laces, ribbons, yellow beads, and little looking-glasses!An you 11 be finer than the lads, an fairer than the lasses! But with his hands upon his ears good Merrivein, he sped,While they followed, in amazement at the queer words that he said. Of red alpaca buy a crock, a pail of… … wSm If AndAnd -- And Polly from the Ferriers, and Peggy from the hillside,And little Norah of Dunblea, and Nelly of the millside;And so they ran, and oh, they ran! a-joining hands together,Twixt Durley Hill and Durley Green, all in the windy weather.And there,— good Master Merrivein! — upon a stone…
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