Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 52
The princess bent her browIn a truly Celestial bow,Saluted her father with filial grace, and madehim the grand kotow.(For every child that s brightKnows well the rule that s right,That to knock your head on the ground ninetimes is the way to be polite.) And, pray, what have we here? In language… … PRINCE CHOO-CHOO. Loud laughed the Prince Choo-Choo,And I fancy he said Pooh-pooh!(That sounds very much like a Chinese word,and expresses his feelings, too!)And the fair Su-See leaned low. My Bud of the Rose, you knowIf little Fing-Wee our son should be, yourhonors to him must go! But the…
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