Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 88
THE BROWNIES IN THE GRIST-MILL 57 The bread, indeed, was not a treat,But frost had spoiled the farmers wheat;But, that the flour might go around,The wheat must in the mill be ground.The corn, no better as a crop, No second-rate, makeshift affairShould in the face of diners stare,But something that… … Refused to ripen, or to pop; And so the children felt their share Of hardship and misfortune there. The hopper must take up its clack,— We 11 bring the hum of business back, And stir the spider in her net; We ve several hours to midnight yet. It is, you know, the time of year That to some foreign…
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