Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 82
bled;And then he bumped,And everything tumbled —Bumpyty-thump!Thumpyty-bump! —Houses and palaces all in a lump! Oh, what a crash !Oh, what a smash !How could I ever be so rash ? The Earthquake cried. What under the sunHave I gone and done ?I never before was so mortified ! Then away he fled,And… … 69 7o THE BASHFUL EARTHQUAKE He came at last to a country laneBordering upon a field of grain;And just at the spot where he paused to rest,In a clump of wheat, hung a Dormouse nest. The sun in the west was sinking red,And the Dormouse had just turned into bed,Dreaming as only a Dormouse can,When…
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