sometimes the man who is paying you feels that it doesn't. It's just a matter of taste.
Fifth Verse
(I'm not counting the last one, because it's a different shape from the others)
Belinda Brown was not afraid,
(Belinda was as brave as three)
And in the castle she had made
She waited for the rising sea.
Belinda was as brave as 3,
Belinda was as brave as 8;
She waited calmly while the sea
Came in at a tremendous rate.
And now we are coming to the sad part of the story. There was Belinda, as you see her in the picture, not a bit afraid, and suddenly—
Seventh Verse
It washed Belinda's castle down,
And in a moment they were gone—
The castle and Belinda Brown.
But where was Belinda? That was what all the other children said. And when Mr. and Mrs. Brown came down to the
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