Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 38
Sir Twiddle, the court poet, had composed a May-day song.Although each line had seven feet, t was only one foot long.It had nine ohs and fourteen hails, and lots of thees and thysAnd Sir Twiddle was so proud of it, he gave himself a prize! Some noble youths and maidens were to dance the… … So everything was ready, quite, to greet the festal day With melody and mirth, and so it just remains to say (Though perhaps ere now this little point I ought to have explained) They did nt have their party, because, you see,—it rained! THE YOUNG WIZARD OF MOROCCO BY BRADLEY GILMAN Author of A Son…
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