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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 287

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ere s a picture in the window Of a little shop I know,With boys and girls dressed as they were A hundred years ago.And since I saw it, I have thought, And keep on thinking howThe children, maybe, will be dressed A hundred years from now. ■A <3 Will girls wear caps or farthingales, Or hoops in… … What do you think the girls and boys Will eat in those far days?Will they be fed on breakfast foods In many sorts of ways ?Will all the good and tasty things Be worse for them than rice ?Will ice-cream soda make them sick, And everything that s nice ? Will childrens books have pictures then. Or…

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