Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 144
,For t was very near the sea,And the w^ind was very high,But, alas! no friend was nigh. Luckily, her good mammaSaw her trouble from afar;Running just in time, she caught herPretty little flying daughter. Rhymes for the Nursery CLIMBESTG ON BACKS OF CHAIRS What, cHmb on the back of a chair! Oh,… … Indeed, my dear Henry, I hopeYou will never do so again. Yonr poor little teeth may be broke,Or your face get some terrible bruise, Indeed, and indeed, tis no joke, And you must not do just as you choose, For suppose there s no danger at all,T is your duty to mind what I say; So I 11 punish you,…
Nursery rhymes
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