Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 156
rough that gloomy garden-close the Scribeof Durley fled;Dropped armor, shield and long sword, and thehelmet from his head. And lo! upon his threshold, trembling and panting, he —The dauntless Scribe of Durley—met his pretty daughters three.One had a lighted candle, and one the snuifers bore.And one… … And when their leader rose on high with ratthng, warUke sound,We lifted yonder cobweb-broom and felled him to the ground!
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