Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 470
;Where I can watch the wild waves dance, So restless and so free.Of all the homes in this wide world, None could so well suit me. I love to watch the roaring waves As they come tumbling in,And catch the funny jellyfish, So round and flat and thin ;I love to dig down in the sand, And hunt for… … What fun the mermaids ought to have Among those waves all day!But when the sea is clothed in mist, On land I d rather stay;For it is cold at eventide Down in these depths so gray. A FUNNY INCIDENT. BY PAUL VALLE, JR. (AGE II). {Silver Badge.) One day (I was about six years old) I started outhunting…
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