Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 282
Played fitfully the strange blue lights;Misshapen monsters lined the wall, A toad upon his chair did crawl,And many a dark and mystic scrawlWas scattered round the room;Puss trembled by the half-shut door.Scarce seen amid the gloom,Then entered, bowing to the floor,And said, A man of science,… … They tell me, sir, resumed the cat, With ease you take this shape or that, Kow, though at times, even I have dared To dabble in the magic art, Though witches have my converse shared. And I Ve defied Deaths frequent dart; PUSS IN BOOTS 265 I own such wonders seem to me,Beyond the power of glamourie.…
Nursery rhymes
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