Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 574
ll, but a pear-treeWith ripe yellow pears on the tree. Thought James, If I only could reach With cakes they would taste verygood.Then in through the gate he went creep-ing—I wonder, myself, how he could ! But a terrible witch owned this pear-tree;Out into the garden came she. Ho ! she cried. So at… … *^*!^% ■j? ObJ *m «^» vi^; ^JV*1 )*\w» J^«. v-JC W^i. But James took the cakes from hissatchel,And soon he had scattered them round;And the witch-girl went hunting andstoopingTo gather them up from the ground;Then the satchel James dressed in hisjacket,And set his old hat on it straight,And slid…
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