Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 575
T was on a springy morning, and a rather shaky stile,I met an Aged Person with some taffy and a smile;And while the one diminished and the other slowly grew,That person old this story told, which here I tell to yon:
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