Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 465
oe sent out notices to all the birds he knew(The carrier-pigeons carried them from China to Peru),Saying, O-yez ! O-yez ! O-yez ! King Hoopoe doth proclaimA Dancing Competition, and invites you to the same. And to the winner he 11 a- Ward the Princess PhilomelaTo be his bride forever; but he thinks… … i ll do a dance upon my head, and that ll make em talk. Perhaps you ve reckoned up the motes that in the sunbeams play;Perhaps you ve counted all the stars that form the Milky Way.But you never could imagine what a crowd could really beTill you sawJ;he birds arriving in their myriads oer the sea:…
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