A book of nursery rhymes : being Mother Goose's melodies arranged in the order of attractiveness and interest (1901)
Welsh, Charles, 1850-1914 · Boston : D. C. Heath · leaf 141
[Mind your stops.] Every lady in this landHas twenty nails, upon each handFive, and twenty on hands and feetAll this is true without deceit. I20 A BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES … Elizabeth, Elspeth,Betsy, and Bess, They all went togetherto seek a birds nest. They found a birds nestwith five eggs in, They all took one,and left four in. As soft as silk, as white as milk,As bitter as gall, a thick wall.And a green coat covers me all. A walntit. As I went through the garden…
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