Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 484
Not long had this snore been outbooming, before An answering challenge came sounding;He sprang to his feet, as with oncoming roar,A creature with blazing eyes down on him bore, With terrible leaping and bounding !No nightmare that ever climbed up on your bed Could mate with this fearsome… … i^rt^- 318 THE BALLAD OF SIR CHRISTOPHER J. JONES [Feb., But Christopher moaned not one least little mite; He seized on his lance, tried and trusted,And just as the beast at his head made a bite,He punctured its paws, fore, hind, left, and right, And both of its eye-lamps bangbusted!Thus crippled,…
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