Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 336
t they were the teeniest, weeniest raceThat ever lived in any place) When they heard the sound Of the guns all round, The rolling drums, And the bursting bombs, The cannons flash, And the bang! boom !! crash !!! They shook and shivered, And quaked and quivered,For a Revolution in full swing,Is a… … HatchiS^ tAT>Y THEN THE TREE FELL DOWN WITH A CRASHING LOUD,AND THE HAPPYCHAPS ALL SWARMED OUT IN A CROWD. 254 THE HAPPYCHAPS [Jan., They scrambled in by pairs and dozens,Fathers and mothers and aunts and cousins;Helter-skelter they crowded in,And thus shut out the wars loud din. But in that…
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