Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 79
5^4 ANCIENT HISTORY. [May, ANCIENT HISTORY.By Margaret Vandegrift. (A prose story in rhyme.) I SUPPOSE they heardthe reading-lessonWhich their olderbrother read thatday, For I was not asked totell them Some-thingNew and funny, Mam-ma, to play. … But when I happened into the nursery,Both were reclining in regal state, By a table furnished with two bananas,And a vast amount of gilt-paper plate. Johnny was looking anxiously upward,But May, apparently quite at ease, Announced, from a shawl and two sofa-pillows, We are Mr. and Mrs. Damocles !…
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