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So he gave the rein to his mare and they rode along, chatting merrily together, till they came to the wood. Then said the Squire, "Take a look within that nook And tell me what is there." And Mary exclaimed, "A dingle-bell, and truth to tell In full bloom, I declare!" The Squire now clucked to his nag, and as they rode away he said,
"Oh, Squire!" sobbed Mary, "I am in great trouble "Each dingle-bell I loved so well Before my eyes is dying, And much I fear my brother dear In sickness now is lying!" "Nonsense!" said the Squire; "because you named the flowers after your brother Hobart is no reason he should be affected by the fading of the dingle-bells.
"The cockle-shell is father's flower, The cowslip here is Robart, The dingle-bell, I now must tell, I 've named for Brother Hobart "And when the flowers have lived their lives In sunshine and in rain, And then do fade, why, papa said He 'd sure come home again." "Oh, that 's the idea, is it?" asked the big bluff Squire, forgetting his poetry.
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