Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 821
And should I not return, my liege, quoth he, and wiped his eye, T will be because I dont come back. Farewell! In fact, good-by(—How now! Whats this? Oh yes, I see! Ive got this thing reversed.Why, I was really writing my second stanza first!) Of course I should have told you how the good King… … The king had many other knights: Sir Gigaboo the Gay,Sir Percy (who liked pumpkin pie), and proud Sir Popinjay,Sir Dink, who always walked on stilts, and many others, too;But he chose Sir Quincum just because his name began with Q.
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