Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 297
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… … Chere was a fet man of ^ombayV^/ho sat smoKinrt one stmshiny dayWhen a bird called a .snipeFlew away wjlh his pipe,Which vexed the faX man. of J^mbay. This very adventurous snipe,He hurried away with the pipe,And attempted to smoke,But it caused him to choke,And just about finished the snipe.
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