. St. Nicholas [serial] . THE FRACTIOUS ROCKING-HORSE. I was made by a left-handed goblin,Broken-nosed, with a cast in his eye ;T is impossible ever to tame me,Give it up, now, you jockeys, dont try ! Fol-de-rol-lol-de-ray. Elfie laughed heartily at the conceit of therocking-horse, and gave him an imitation applewhich she found among a lot of other china fruiton the shelf. Then, nodding good-by to thelittle horse-breakers, she passed on to the fartherend of the room. ?891 ELFIE S VISIT TO CLOUDLAND AND THE MOON. Trick the Ninth. GRIMGUFFINS LAMENT. 347. ELFIE MEETS GRIMGUFFIN. HIS SAD STORY. E
. St. Nicholas [serial] . THE FRACTIOUS ROCKING-HORSE. I was made by a left-handed goblin,Broken-nosed, with a cast in his eye ;T is impossible ever to tame me,Give it up, now, you jockeys, dont try ! Fol-de-rol-lol-de-ray. Elfie laughed heartily at the conceit of therocking-horse, and gave him an imitation applewhich she found among a lot of other china fruiton the shelf. Then, nodding good-by to thelittle horse-breakers, she passed on to the fartherend of the room. ?891 ELFIE S VISIT TO CLOUDLAND AND THE MOON. Trick the Ninth. GRIMGUFFINS LAMENT. 347. ELFIE MEETS GRIMGUFFIN. HIS SAD STORY. E-MA-JI-NA-SHUN TAKES HER TO VISIT THE TOY FACTORY. LFIE walked slowlyalong, seeing some-thing new at everystep. When shereached the end ofthe room she sawwhat she at firsttook to be a hideous ogre, standing up againstthe wall and staring at her with great goggleeyes. The head was a terrible sight. It seemedto Elfie to be as large as the big table in herpapas library — it was very nearly round, andhad a tuft of hideous red hair on the top andunder the chin. The nose was painted a fieryred, and its mouth, which was stretched wideopen, was a red flannel bag. Its body was rather small for the head, butstill as large as a good-sized man, and it wasdressed in clothes which reminded Elfie of theclowns dress she had seen at the circus. What is that ? she said to Maggie May,who had followed her with little jerky steps. Oh, that s just a game, she said, and it isnothing but pasteboard. The way to play, shesaid, is to take one of these balls which are in
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