Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 297
had. naucrht,y\nd robbers came to -rob him.He crept up the chimney top ,And then they thought they had him.But he got down the other side ,./\nd then they could not find him •.He ran fourteen miles ii\ fifteen days ,-A.nd never looked behind him . When at last he stopped to rest, The people… … 3 My friends, he said, no wealth had T,But_ robbers came to steal it. The courage I displayed that day,—I never will reveal it. And now I ve traveled all this wayThat I may help you catch them. And having got the wicked rogues,That I may soon despatch them, Oh, well I see why riches makeSo many…
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