Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 288
and-twenty. |Methinks my own biography would make a tale inviting, iIf I but had the pen and ink, and, too, the knack of writing. i When I was hatched in Caseys Creek with half a thousand others(Two thirds of them, I must confess, my sisters or my brothers !)With enemies on every hand, t was… … But I grew up a lusty tad, remarked Tobias Tupper; Three rows of teeth on my lower lip and two rows on my upper;Then one day I got heedless: along came Bullfrog Binner,And first I knew my best hind leg he d swallowed for his dinner.T was gone for sure ! My new hind leg! My wrath was hard to…
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