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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 539

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QUOTH HE, I dont KNOW WHERE I M BOUND. Lord Crackerjack loved candy; he kept it in a tower; He used to buy it by the pound, and eat it by the hour; So, as he sat and looked abroad, upon this day so bright, His hands were filled with caramels, his soul with calm delight. 428 A BALLAD OF NOBILITY… … HIS HANDS WERE FILLED WITH CARAMELS, HIS SOUL WITH CALM DELIGHT. Full gladly would we linger with the joyful Crackerjack,But a ballad is a ballad, and you just cant hold it back;So let us tear ourselves away to quite another sceneAnd seek, amid the forest gloom, the Lady Geraldine. Help! cried the…

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