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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 732

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h his back to her, beneath an old thorn-tree,And he hummed an Irish ballad while, as busy as a bee.He was working like a shoemaker upon a tiny brogueOnly large enough to fit the foot of some wee fairy rogue. Molly had her wits about her, and she seized him by the neck. And by all his screams and… … WAS WORKING LIKEA SHOEMAKER. Now indeed ! she cried, dont think it, for I 11 never let you go.Nor will take my eye or hand from you, till you agree to showWhere I can discover gold enough to buy a dress of green,And some shoes with silver buckles on, —you saucy Lurikeen ! Then the Lurikeen made…

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