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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 566

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KatharineMaynadier iql1Da-land But the Weather Man sat in his lofty tower,And he said to himself that night:Now, for ever so longI have prophesied wrong-So, for once, I will prophesy right!I know, for a fact, it will certainly rain,Just as sure as to-morrow shall dawn;So he sent out word,Which the… … MaynadtM Now, of course you see how it all came out,For the sports were held next day. It rained and it blew, And they got wet through,And the band refused to play!The slippery pig slipped home forthwith,The merry-go-round was sad, And the rolling-race Never did take place,For the rolling was very…

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