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Identifier: stnicholasserial271dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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111 ■ 4^ By Jane Dransfield. Old clockSo tall,In your niche in the wall,What is it you say,As you tick all day,With your smiling faceAnd your polished case ?Tell me, I pray,Is this what you say ? Tick, tock,I m the family clock.A hundred years old,Of good old stock /Tick, tock,Good old stock,A hundred years old,The family clock / Old clock So tall,In your niche in the wall,Have you memories faintOf dear ladies quaint,With high powdered hair,Who tripped up this stair ? THE FAMILY CLOCK. I99 Tell me, I pray, Is this what you say ? Tick, tock, I re seen many a frock,And the witchery fairOf a gleaming lock /Tick, tock,Many a frock, And the witchery fairOf a gleaming lock / Old clockSo tall,In your niche in the wall,Do you never feel affrightIn the dead of the night,When winds howl drear,And strange noises you hear?Or tell me, I pray,Is this what you say ? Tick, tock, I m a doughty old clock ; I know no fear ; Let them rage and knock ;Tick, tock,Rage and knock;I know tio fear — A dough

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