Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 188
ould intrude,And in short his Assyrian Majestys moodScarce befitted a rank so exalted ! The king, as he turned his imperial frownOn the stream, for presuming to spatter his gown,He spied in the rushes the fisher-boy brown, With his pipe and his basket of wicker;And, seized with a sudden and royal… … Then ran theminister,and fat,In a little gold filletinstead of a hat,And a lot of gold tas-sels and fringeand all that,And a dozen proud nobles behind him;And down on the wondering fisher theypounced,And the fish from his basket they speedilybounced, THEN ran the prime MINISTER, FLORIDAND FAT. 7i8…
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