St Nicholas [serial] . HER SHRIEKS NO MERCY WIN. Methinks I hear the area-bell; Oh, father, quickly speed ! T is but a pesky book-agent; Thou hast no time to read ! The fatal knife descends, descends ! Her shrieks no mercy win !When lo, a shout !—the door gives way! In rushes Benjamin !. I NOW RETURN, A TRILLIONAIRE. Full many a year, a pirate bold,I ve sailed the Spanish main; I now return, a claim thee, Mary Jane ! 206 MABEL AND I. [Januarv Out spake her happy sire then : Can I my eyes believe ?Upon your knees, my children dear,My blessing to receive ! Alas for luckless Morti
St Nicholas [serial] . HER SHRIEKS NO MERCY WIN. Methinks I hear the area-bell; Oh, father, quickly speed ! T is but a pesky book-agent; Thou hast no time to read ! The fatal knife descends, descends ! Her shrieks no mercy win !When lo, a shout !—the door gives way! In rushes Benjamin !. I NOW RETURN, A TRILLIONAIRE. Full many a year, a pirate bold,I ve sailed the Spanish main; I now return, a claim thee, Mary Jane ! 206 MABEL AND I. [Januarv Out spake her happy sire then : Can I my eyes believe ?Upon your knees, my children dear,My blessing to receive ! Alas for luckless Mortimer,Of love the hopeless dupe ! He gave up all his title deeds,And joined a circus troupe. But merrily the bells did ring,Loud was the cannons din, Upon the day when Mary JaneWas wed to Benjamin ! [A low step-ladder, or table covered with a cloth,may be used for the wall. Mary Janes bon-net can be made of a newspaper. Her fathermay wear a water-proof cloak, belted in, if adressing-gown is not obtainable. MABEL AND (A Fairy Tale.) I. By Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. I. I WANT to see things as they are, said I toMabel. I dont see how else you can see them, an-swered Mabel, with a laugh. You certainly dontsee them as they are not. Yes, I do, said I. I see men and thingsonly as they seem.
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