Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 129
to see the fire, I suppose he could nt wait for us. We dropped from the shortened ladder to theground, passed through the gate and shut it noise-lessly behind us, and then broke into a run towardthat quarter of the town where both a pillar of flameand a pillar of cloud rose through the night… … BUTTERFLIES. By Susan Hartley Swett. The bees were too busy making honey, The birds were too busy building nests,To carry one morning a message graveTo Elfland, for one of the fairy-guests(For this was before the butterfliesHad ever been thought of under the skies). Then the vexed fairy who wished…
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