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Title: Rhymes and jingles
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
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Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n. THE FROG. l8l Pooh, pooh! said old Gluck, The youngster is right,So let him alone, maam,Or you and I 11 fight.And, hark ye, my son, I have noticed of lateYon puddle attracts you. Tis well. Find your mate.The Gungs, as a family, seem to adore you.Select your own waters.Take one of the daughters.And leap into life like your father before you. V. Alas for young puddledum ! Proudly he scoutedThe sires good advice. He sulked and he pouted,And the Gung girls, in turn, every one of them, flouted What, choose me a wife !Does he think Im a fool ?No, my motto for lifeIs : one frog to a pool.Shall I yield up my freedom — be tied to a log ?Not I, by my jumps ! quoth this prig of a frog.Miss Gung, sir, for all /ll prevent, gug-a-loo!May sing till they carry me,* No one will marry me,Nobody, nobodys coming to woo ! VT. I must tell you ; old Gluck, with his puddle so fair,Was known by the banks as mud-millionaire.So, young Gluck (who you know, was his first sonand heir), l82 RHYMES AND JINGLES.
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Soon set up a team Of sleek water-rats,And covered his head With the brightest of hats ;Then, with a phaeton and footman or two,He drove forth to dazzle, to awe and subdue.Oh! glum was his face, his heart icy cold! THE FROG. I S3 And the seat of his car,Though too wide by farFor one single frog, not another would hold. VII. But when did the heartless, disdainful, and flatLive on, unrebuked by this worlds tit for tat ?And why did our frog trust his fate to a rat? One day, as he drove, There came forth to stare — Kingfisher and Duck —A most comical pair.The first was the proudest that ever was seen,For the rod in his hand was the gift of his queen;But the other — ah ! never did duck so expand ; Yet strut as he could. And strain as he would,Poor Quack, for the life of him, could nt look grand. VIII. Yet he took it amiss that his efforts were lostTo thaw with his splendor that armor of frost(For our frog quite disdained any duck to accost). And loudly he shouted, Come back, sir, com

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