Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 80
^mp*-~ By Helen S. Daley. Gwendolen Jones was chubby and sweet, Harold Percival Marmaduke Smith And her age was half-past three; Up to the field marched he; And she lived in a house on Wellington Street, But his eye was blacked, and his head wasIn the yard with the walnut-tree. whacked, And his… … Harold Percival Marmaduke Smith Was almost half-past four;And he said, when they gave him a baseballand bat, That he d play with the girls no more. Gwendolen Jones she gazed through thefence.At an end were all lifes joys,As she saw the friend of her youth depart To play with the great big boys.
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