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 173
Seventeen, eighteen,Maids a-waiting; Nineteen, twenty, My stomachs empty. Pray, dame, give me some supper. 152 A BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES … The man in the wilderness asked me,How many strawberries grew in the sea?I answered him as I thought good,As many as red herrings grew in the wood. CHILD STORIES AND PLAY 153 There was a man, and he had nought,And robbers came to rob him; He crept up to the chimney-pot, And then they thought they…
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