Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 182
may sigh and Nurse may fumeFor the gay little cap with its eagle plume. One cannot be thinking all day of such matters!Trifles are trifles! says little Prince Tatters. Little Prince Tatters has lost his coat,Playing he did not need it!Left it right there, by the nanny-goat,And nobody never seed… … Lhtle Prince Tatters has LOST his ball ! Rolled away down the street!Somebody 11 have to find it, that s all. Before he can sleep or eat.Now raise the neighborhood quickly, do! And send for the crier and constable too!J Trifles are trifles; but serious matters.They must be seen to, says…
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