Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 735
carefullyweighed the Firefly, then and there. Sorry, said he, after the Scales balanced, butI cannot take you, because you are far too heavy—as well as too light! and here he chuckled athis joke. You are weighed down by too greata sense of your own worth, and so you wouldnot find the Sky so Blue as… … I LL give you all I HAVE L\ MY POCKETS. The little Spritesky hung his Scales upon thegrass-stem, and skipped in glee, because he couldnot keep his spirits down. He bounded; he flit-ted; he danced on tiptoe; and then lightly sprangupon his teetering grass-blade, and began againhis singsong rhyme:…
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