Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 463
, and a tiger, all his own.He kept them in his nursery, and that boy, I do declare,Would boldly face the lion and the tiger and the bear.One day he proudly spake to them: Well may you crouch and cower!O mighty beasts, your fate is sealed; I have you in my power.But ere I send you to your doom, to… … They say you vedined on manymen, perhaps aboy or two, But there s a pos-sibility these tales may not be true. So one last chance I 11 give you yourdefamers to defy: I 11 set you free if you their accusationscan deny. When the lion and the tiger and the bear this offer heard,They sat in sober…
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