Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 221
t will not splitEvry time that it is hit;Next I d choose a pair of skatesJust as nice as Sister Kates,And a bright large monoplaneThat will carry rag-doll Jane;Then I d like a lot of thingsThat are run by hidden springs—Rats and spiders, and the like;And I need a brand-new bikeWith a coaster-brake… … Two compositions lay on the dark-haired boysdesk. They were his last and hardest schoolefforts; they had both been written for prizes;and they had both failed. One was on Mathe-matical Pursuits, —a prose composition of 5000words; the other was a poem on The Ship-wreck. On the back of the long…
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