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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 48

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By John Bennett. Canto I. Once, on a merry summers day. Beneath the greenwood tree,There stood a moated castle By a long-forgotten sea, … A princess she of royal line Without the least alloy,Yet in her little waxen heart She loved a Tailor BoyWho kept a little clothing-store Down in a dingy street,And retailed ancient gabardines In styles quite obsolete. This Tailor loved the Lily Maid — She was his guiding star!He went to every…

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