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THE NEW DOLL'S HOUSE: 10. THE VISITORS: (A) THE SMALLER FRY by HUMBERT WOLFE

First Line: AMONG THE SMALLER FRY, / WHO'LL COME
Last Line: KINGS AT TROY.

AMONG the smaller fry,
Who'll come
at intervals, will
be Tom Thumb,
the little man who
had a gun,
and Jack (I mean the
beanstalk one),
the valiant tailor,
Tiny Tim,
and Mr. Wordsworth's
Little Jim,
Little Miss Muffet,
and Boy Blue,
the young Achilles
whom we knew
not as a hero
sulking in
his Trojan tent, but
as the tin
soldier, although a
toy,
braver than all the
kings at Troy.



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