Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 188
TIOUS CORREGGIO CAROTHERS. By Malcolm Douglas. CORREGGIO CAROTHERS was a man of much renown:The dolls he made and painted were the talk of all the town ;In a room half shop, half study, he would gayly work away,Completing, by his diligence, one dozen dolls a day. If it chanced to be fine weather,… … Correggio, Correggio, the toyman oft would cry. Oh, why do you persist in making dolls no one will buy? In my second-story wareroom I have hundreds stored away; And, if each had a pretty face, they d not be there to-day ! My work is conscientious, sir, he proudly would explain; As dolls are mimic…
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