Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 153
THE CROSS CARPENTER-SHOP. He started out to build a shop,But when he got it done It looked so very cross it madeHis customers all run. He once was hired to build a church, But had no luck in that;His fellow-townsmen, laughing, said It looked more like a cat. … THE CAT CHURCH. THE FUNNY CARPENTER. 703 Some friends they let him build an inn, But they were money out,For not a guest would take a bite; They d rather do without. He fixed the schoolhouse belfry,And oh! it seems absurd, But the building then resembledA sickly dodo bird.
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