Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 779
they had agreed to this, he took hisstaff in his hand and went out to the highwaywhere many people passed. Everybody was going the same way that day,and when Gaffer looked about to see why thiswas so, he spied, far ahead, a piper piping awaylike a thrush in May. Heyday, t was a merrytune he played,… … ■ GAFFER WISEMAN DID NOT WANT TO BE KING. trudging along away from the piper and thecrowd as if he did not see or hear them. How now, said Gaffer to him. Tl^ou artyoung, and the young should be gay. Dost thounot like the piping and the dance ? Aye, that do I, said the youth; but when amans feet…
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