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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 112

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A LADY lives across the way,The best I ever knew.She lets me come to spend the dayAnd asks my puppy, too! Wee Prue would plant some pop-corn In neat and ordered rows. And so she asked the gardener: Dear sir, dont you suppose If, just before our corn we dropped, We popped it, it would come up… … Its funny how I tire of toys(They say it is the way with boys !) —My bat and ball, velocipede,Are soon like flowers gone to seed.My marbles, engine, puzzle- map Grow old,—with clowns suit and tall cap,—But, every morning, bounding trueTo me, my pup is always new! o c?o ■And clustered thick around…

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