Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 147
There was an old man of Cathay;When a peddler called round, he would say: The price is quite low,And I d like it, you know—But I think I wont take it to-day. 128 HOW THE ELEPHANTS TURNED BACK. [December, … I879-] ABRAM MORRISON. I29 HOW THE ELEPHANTS TURNED BACK. A LONG time ago, two hundred and seventeenyears before Christ, there was a king of Egypt,Ptolemy the Fourth, who was returning, proud andvictorious, from a war with his enemies. On hisway home, he passed through Jerusalem; andthere, feeling…
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