Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 309
LISTEN TO REASON One afternoon, as Joseph West,The boy who learnt his lesson best.Was trying how his whip would crack.By chance he hit Headstrong on the back. Enraged he flew and gave poor Joe,With all his might a sudden blow^:Xor would he listen to one word,When Joe endeavoured to be heard. 3IISS… … MISS PEGGY As Peggy w^as crying aloud for a cakeWhich her mother had said she should fetch fromthe wake, A gentleman knocked at the door! 292 FAVOURITES OF A NURSERY He entered the parlour and showed much surprise,That it really was Peggy who made all the noise,For he never had heard her before.…
Nursery rhymes
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