Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 714
CORREGGIO CAROTHERS. Bv Malcolm Douglas. CoRREGGIo CAROTHERS was a man of much rinown :The dolls he made and jjainted 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 <.lay. 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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