Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 644
is far frommy wish to disturb your quiet, but as I lay hereon my pallet with my heart breaking for a sightof home, I minded me all at once of the daywhen my little red calf ran between my legs andupset me in a trough of sour milk—ha, ha andho, ho! And he laughed till his sides were liketo split.… … THE KING MADE THE CLOWN ONE OF HIS CHIEF COUNCILORS. Why should a lad in a dungeon laugh becausea red calf once upset him in a trough of sourmilk? he asked himself a hundred times. Andat last, when he could find no reason, he sent andbrought the clown out of prison and made himone of his chief…
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