Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 787
ages, full of pi;The authors wept by day and nightBecause their books they could not write;The ink in all the ink-wells dried;And all the little children criedBecause (and some are crying yet!)They could not learn the Alphabet! What next had happened, no one knows,But all at once a man arose,A very…
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