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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 79

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The work was begun,And, my! it was fun!They all worked like sixty, and soon it was done.The Skiddoodles cut out great blocks of ice.Which the Happychaps whiskedintoplace inatrice.And the wondrous affairAs it rose in the airWas a triumph of some style of great architecture(Though what style it was,… … THE PROCESSION UPHILL. Ben Ali dispensed them, as each name was called;But when the Skiddoodles came, he was ap-palled.Said Sir Horace Hoptoad, Give me two pairs,please, Said Brer Spider, I 11 haveto have four pairs ofthese!The beetles took three pairs each; D. Longlegs, four;And some asked for six…

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