Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 155
very style. Those roaring robbersdanced and pranced about that pile withglee, their horrid howls were bad to hear,their grins were bad to see. But whatwas worse, they took those clothes, allclean and spotless white, and threw theminto pools of mud and poked them out ofsight. The last and daintiest… … most anybody, and those rogues justtrembled in their boots, and haK a dozenran away with terror-stricken hoots. Down swooped a DRAGON, snortingfire, and tucked from wing to wing, werethirty-seven tots whose shouts just madethe welkin ring. Behind them, with agraceful curve, came IVORY…
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