Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 263
pliedWith one upon the other side,And that he did not always goWith both feet in a line, althoughThe artist represents it so,As was their playful custom. At school he learned arithmetic,And measuring rivers with a stick;And if, when teachers failed to look,He sometimes scribbled in his book,Why,… … And set them up, just for the funOf putting on inscriptions. But now, bereft of all employ,The prince was still a little boy,And Satan, then as now, could findSome mischief still, an idle mind And idle hands bestirring.As lorn and lonely Amnes sat,He all at once espied a catThat curled near by upon…
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