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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 119

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TORY TOLLEVERS By Ethel Ta-rton <j4vid would you have the s^oryWith all the How and Why They stayed to tfheer a ToryWho came to hang one high, To <fheer a Tollever ToryiNor hang a Tollever spy? A light hand tapped at Tollevers door,Tollever whispered Hark! Eye to the Keyhole, Knee to the… … Pale in the dusk as a flittering mothTo lattice and jamb she clung, Her tremulous warning panted forthWith childish stammering tongue. We love no Tories and spies we hate,My mother she bids me say, But the creeR winds in by your gardengate:Take boat and steal away. My mother says, whatever ye be,…

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