Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 354
stay Till I come to the fields below. Then up I wake and hasten away,Growing stronger and stronger still; And the miller catches me at my playAnd sets me to turn his mill. In and out through the grass I wind,Among cattle and patient sheep, Till somewhere a shady nook I find,And loiter there half… … I ve something very strange to tellAbout what happened once To Dick, who would nt learn to spell,But chose to be a dunce. One winter eve, when he to bedWithout his tea was sent, He had a frightful dream, he said,When off to sleep he went.
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