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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 121

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The change soon completed, their sizes re-versed,Again they would live at their ease —The Elephant dinedOn a thimble of hay,The Mouse on a cart-load of cheese. … Grimalkin and traps no terrors possessedFor the Mouse in his new disguise;The Elephant scoffedAs hidden he watched The tents of the circus arise. But joy was short-lived; sorrows gathered apace: They were strangers among their own kin! They kept open house,As good neighborsshould;Yet no former…

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