Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 385
OR A VACATION. BY GRACE SPERRY (AGE 6). As we walked together Between the earth and skies,Everything around us Looked at us with surprise.For our cheeks were very rosy, And the bonnets on our headsWere the colors of the sunbeams, And our dresses were of red.And our little shoes and stockings Placed… … expecting to have a nice dish of ripe figs, I go out to thefig-trees and find only the skins left, the naughty mina-birds having had a feast while I worked at school. I have a lot of pretty pigeons, but the same cruel mina-birds come and pull the little pigeons out of their nestsand throw them down…
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