Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 344
The poor little china doll below Sat in the doll-house, very sad,For she did not want to marry the jug, In spite of the pennies and dimes hehad;And she would not look at the nursery shelf,Where he sat in his pride and puffed himself. Two more days and it s Christmas Day;I shall be quite full by… … The rag-mother nodded her wicked old Jbhead. Then to-morrow the wedding shall be,she said. And now there s a noise in the hall outside,And two little children come in the door;With eager steps they hurry by Where the doll-house stands on the nursery ^floor.They take the money-jug down from…
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