“Nay, nay! I feel not the least alarm,
No skate of Plimpton’s will bring me to harm:
Though at night I love dancing on polish’d floor,
By day—I love skating and rinking more.”
On she went, and her magic skill
Guided her safely without a spill;
And happy are they who trust their fates
To Plimpton’s rollers and Plimpton’s skates.
From Idyls of the Rink, by A. W. Mackenzie. Second Edition. 1877.
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