Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 230
the goose only opened one window-]3ane. And popped out her pretty red bill.Said she, Your fair words are all in vain, But talk to me here if you will. To-morrow, he cried, there will be a fair.All the birds and the beasts will go;So allow me, I pray, to escort you there,For you will be quite… … In the morning, howeer, her mind she changed,And she thought she would go to the fair; So her numerous feathers she nicely arranged,And cleaned her red bill with much care. She went, I believe, before it was light.For of Reynard she felt much fear; THE FOX AND THE GEESE 213
Nursery rhymes
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