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 142
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 gap.Who should I meet but… … And every time she went through a gap,A bit of her tail she left in a trap. A needle and thread. If you touch Hitty Pitty,Hitty Pitty will bite you. A nettle. Twelve pears hanging high,Twelve knights riding by;Each knight took a pear,And left eleven hanging there. 122 A BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES[To…
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