DAME NATURE'S WASHING DAY.
Dame Nature ,sa.id :• "It's really- time A washing day I had, ' . iS >. The trees look very dusty;. The meadow grass looks sad,." ,; ;.;.'-.■ Quickly she heaped her ramWloudsgrey Ail ready for her washing, day. ; ••;. , Swiftly sh^ lit her copper, =- . With a \yiyid. streak, of light;, ; Then the thunder started roaring With all it's main and might';' ; And soon ;the .little rain-drops/4ell . Upon the mountain and the dell. Tlie skies* were dark- and gloomy, ; The woods looked,, sad . and lone. * Dame Nature's song on washing day Was m a monotone. ; . .:.■ c ../. . v But every green jthing.,laug^editp se^ . The old dame wash. so yigorjouslyj , — Charlotte Pidgeon> in.tTne; Vin«yarti
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13156, 16 August 1913, Page 10
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109DAME NATURE'S WASHING DAY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13156, 16 August 1913, Page 10
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