Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 66
E A WEB OF SILW 59<- MARIETTAS SILKEN SACK S95 The years swung round to centuries that passed and muhiplicd, And Se-ling-she, the Empress, took her place in historj;The generations following each served its turn and died. But the little looms of China were still a mystery.They baffled Greeks and… … THEY BAFFLED GREEKS AND PERSIANS WHO CONSPIRED TO LEARN THE ARTTHAT GAVE TO TODDLING LADIES THEIR ROBES OF SILKEN SHEEN Now a secret, locked and guarded, is the meekest of all things; Its as sleepy as a dormouse while you keep it in the dark;But when once its given freedom, it has forty thousand…
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