Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 268
wS III Puss mounted the armchair, as grave as a judgeJohn muttered ridiculous, — Jacob cried fudge.But Will, with a smile at this joke of the brutes,Said, Measure our friend for a stout pair of boots. 250 FAVOURITES OF A NURSERY ^f^-^T^-r^^^w^;. ^^•^vwj?y--\WTP;^^7^ … The shoemaker, glad of a job, set to work,While he cried, with a scarcely perceptible jerkOf his head, where his patron laid one of his paws, — If you please, my young customer, draw in your claws. He stroked Pusss leg, and with pleasure Puss purred,Then turned to his master, who silently heard,…
Nursery rhymes
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