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Quotation by Eugene Field
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Eugene Field (10)Additional Sources
Jest 'fore ChristmasLittle Boy BlueQuoted in Alexander Woollcott, "Capsule Criticism" The Portable Woollcott (1946)The DuelWynken, Blynken, and NodRelated Subjects
pets (9) animals (4) hunting (3) love (2) musicians (2) sounds (2) music (2) men (2) tyranny (1) exile (1)
They found no trace of dog or cat;
And some folks think unto this day
That burglars stole that pair away!
But the truth about the cat and pup
Is this: they ate each other up!
Now what do you really think of that!
The old Dutch clock it told me so,
And that is how I came to know.)
And some folks think unto this day
That burglars stole that pair away!
But the truth about the cat and pup
Is this: they ate each other up!
Now what do you really think of that!
The old Dutch clock it told me so,
And that is how I came to know.)
Eugene Field (1850–1895), U.S. poet, humorist. The Duel (l. 29–36). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford University Press.
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford University Press.
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