Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 227
here was a poor old cobbler once who worked to earn his bread,His name was Blucher Wellington Balmoral Waxenthread;He tacked and hammered, nailed and pegged; he waxedand sewed. —and then,He had a sudden, bright idea!-and never toiled aarain ! … Mj% ^ . .. hat did he do ? Well, this he did: a garden bed he made ;He hoed it, and he raked it, and he dug it with a spade.He planted many useful plants, and. raised a wondrous crop,And when his fruit was ripe enough, the cobbler stocked his shop e had a lot of Shoe-trees, the boughs were loaded…
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