Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 434
smell the new-plowed sod ;Still see the dashing brooklet where the early flowers nod ;And watch that little farm-house send its incense-smoke to God !) Oh, when I sought a new home in the citys crowded air,I saw but dingy walls around that rise up bleak and bareTo meet a faded heaven that looks… … HOW THEY RIDE. BY M. BETTY WATT, AGE 14.(SILVER BADGE.) And if I make a fuss to Nurse, she shakes her finger, so,And says, in bossy fashion, Now, my dear, you surely knowThat your sister is the baby ; you have not that honor now;So you must be a real good boy, as good as you know how ! I am wrong ;…
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