Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 721
the feasting and the frolic in the wood!All day long — he felt a choking;It was certainly provoking :But — he started; some one softlythrough the willow hedge was poking,And he sprang within the doorway where hestood. From a hostile tribe — a stranger — such a looking stranger, too!You d have… … HIS MAMA WAS MAKING CALLSON SOME NEIGHBORS WHO WERE GAULS. Now a tramp, though Early English, still isnot a welcome guest,And t was plain his plans were sinister anddeep.Thought our little Carry, But! —If he should come in the hut,With the cakes a-baking on the hearth,the pantry door not shut,And…
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