Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 653
mple cloak, home-woven, dusky-blue,And dyed at home from the forest plants her diligent mother knew;Then book in hand she gravely paced adown the village street,For little maids must seemly be and walk with decorous feet.Naught was the school but a neighbors cot of logs from the forest hewn,The… … BOOK IN HAND SHE GRAVELY PACED ADOWNTHE VILLAGE STREET The scholars came soberly, bowing low or dropping a curtesy fine;Boys and girls in a sober row and toddlers last in line. With a scrape of their stools, they sate them down and read from the blessed Book, The mistress eyeing them while she…
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