Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 288
nd myself alive, of course I felt quite merry.I had my way to make in life, and I must look for supper;A toad has little time to grieve, observed Tobias Tupper. Ho, hum ! a record of my life would surely be exciting.If I but had the pen and ink, and, too, the knack of writing,I *d set you such a… … harrow. But though Ive learned that trouble lurks in every field and furrow.And sometimes one is hardly safe at home and in his burrow,Thou.gh oft pursued by snake and fowl, and mauled by furry strangers,And though exposed to every kind of terrifying dangers,Ive tried to keep my faith in man, and…
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