Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 483
tus confidently hope that all will yet be well. ToHis care commending you, as I hope in your pray-ers you will commend me, I bid you an affec-tionate farewell. There was a long whistle, a puffing cloud ofblack smoke, and the train slid away, taking withit Springfields greatest treasure for the… … a period when knights were as common asdays (A pun that is somewhat rheumatic).They pranced and cavorted on chestnuts and grays,On milk-white Arabians, and beautiful bays, (Equestrian bays, not aquatic).And foremost of all in the deeds of a knight, Chivalric, dashing, and fearless,Down-putting the…
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