Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 619
Ill He would sit and play at chess all day.Although he thought it was rather gay;But, said he, it s no sin,—and I dont care apinHow the game comes out, so long as I win! … IVWhenever he slept, he always keptAwake (at which his family wept).And when specially glad, he would look quite sad,(T was really the noblest trait he had!) VNow I ve never heard say that he d moved away,So he must be there to this very day;And if trolley-cars ran to Talipatan,We d all go and…
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