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A Christmas poem from 1899.
There was a little daughter once, whose feet were—oh, so small!
That when the Christmas eve came round, they wouldn’t do at all.
At least she said they wouldn’t do, and so she tried another’s,
And folding her wee stocking up, she slyly took her mother’s.
“I’ll pin this big one here,” she said—then sat before the fire,
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"A Dear Little Schemer"
By M. M. D. [Mary Mapes Dodge]
From The St. Nicholas Christmas Book (1899)
By M. M. D. [Mary Mapes Dodge]
From The St. Nicholas Christmas Book (1899)
There was a little daughter once, whose feet were—oh, so small!
That when the Christmas eve came round, they wouldn’t do at all.
At least she said they wouldn’t do, and so she tried another’s,
And folding her wee stocking up, she slyly took her mother’s.
“I’ll pin this big one here,” she said—then sat before the fire,
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