Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading - Selected from English and American Literature by Unknown
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He was dressed in his clothes.
The dame made a curtsy, The dog made a bow; The dame said, Your servant, The dog said; Bow, wow. RUNAWAY BROOK. "Stop, stop, pretty water!" Said Mary one day, To a frolicsome brook, That was running away. "You run on so fast! I wish you would stay; My boat and my flowers You will carry away. "But I will run after: Mother says that I may; For I would know where You are running away." So Mary ran on; But I have heard say, That she never could find Where the brook ran away. |
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