Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 167
ITTLE 03]OYS [HJHRISTMAS ||lSH BY FRANCIS McKINNON MORTON I like to be a little boy Almost all of the year,And all the joys of other boys To me are very dear;And one pair of shoes and stockings Can bother one a sight,If they re put on every morning And taken off at night,— But, ah! when Christmas… … The plowers and peacocks on The wall are blue, and gold, and green,ill Tnroac/h The pleasant daytime,^hen everything is Seen,——It night,by Plickring candle-light,dark shadows m The room,^^[ide preTTy peacocks ..peering out, and blinking in The gloom. ioB
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