Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 376
be given to their oldnurse, who had left them when Marnie came, andthat she should take Beppo to her home and nursehim till he got well. After this was settled, a silence fell on them all.Each was busy with his own thoughts. Exactlywhat they were thinking, I cannot tell; but certainam I that… … He was tired of the farm, this butterfly gay, And wanted to go to sea,So he rigged him a boat and sailed away,— Oh, as proud as a king was he, was he, As proud as a king was he ! The butterflys boat was a scallop-shellWhich he found upon the shore, And he thought the craft would do very well,For he…
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