Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 48
tempered and vain,That not a soul dared to speak up and explain. Well, it happened at last that the king, in a rage,Proclaimed that his household, from first lord to page.Should take themselves off to a neighboring state,And stay there until they had learned to walk straight! Now one of His… … And when he did come—bless your stars, what a sight!For he lurched to the left, and he lurched to the right,Precisely as though he were learning to skate —My wig! cried the king, there s a man walk-ing straight! Then he instantly sent for Karaff to remain,And made him directly his Lord…
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