Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 697
p and downThrough the streets of Rainy Town. THE BROWNIES AND THE WATER FAMINE BY PALMER COX The town was much in need of rain,That seemed to linger oer the main,And leave the country, sad to see,With scarcely water for the tea.(And this says naught of bird or beast,Whose sufferings hardly were the… … THEY SOON WERE ON THE HOMEWARD TRACK, AND OF SUPPLY THERE WAS NO LACK. The wells were deepened in the hopeOf striking veins of greater scope,And pumps were rattled out of useFor water they could not produce.When Brownies met, as day withdrew,The situation to review,Said one: The land we love so…
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