Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 24
STOP! STOP!PRETTY WATER Stop ! stop! pretty water,Said Mary one day,To a frolicsome brookThat was running away. Yon rnn on so fast! I wish yon wonld stay;My boat and my flowersYon will carry away. STOP! STOP! PRETTY WATER But I will run after; Mother says that I may;For I would kuow whereYou are… … THE SQUIRREL AND THE WIND Squie. Huhu! Sir Wind, why blow so rough ?I shall shut in haste my little door, And open my other door above!Wind. If I like, I 11 blow there all the more ISquir. Then I shall shut that door no donbt. And say well-pleased, now stop without! The Wind an angry face made he…
Nursery rhymes
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