Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 297
I live on the bureau, or else in a case,And am used to put stray locks and mussed hair in place,I have dozens of teeth, all straight in a row.To eat snarls and tangles, wherever they grow. … In a wee little house,—but oh, so tall,-Little Man Mercury lives on the wall.Up and down, down and up His big ladder he goes,To tell us the weather. Which only he knows.When its hot he climbs up To the very tip top.But the cold makes him shiver,And down he will drop. I am made all of bristles, just…
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