Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 220
■ 1 ?!jf P f7. By Nancy Byrd Turner The little common people—they come in shining bands,But we take them and we scatter them around with careless handsTill some live on the bureau and some live on the shelf,And now and then one lives alone in a corner by himself;And some stay in the work-box, (they… … They help the buttons hold us in our frocks and pinafores.They keep our dollies dresses on, and mend our toys by scores;They re hinges for our boxes and lish-hooks for our strings,They make potatoes animals, and do a hundred things.And we lose them and abuse them and drop them into cracks,We find…
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