Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 317
For oh, how naughty t is to cryBut worse, much worse to fight Instead of running readily And calHng out, Good night. CARELESS MARIA Tlif Daisy Maria was a careless child. And crrieved her friends bv this:Where er she went.Her clothes were rent,Her hat and bonnet spoiled,A careless little miss.… … Her gloves and mitts were often lost, Her tippet sadly soiled; You might have seen Where she had been, For toys all round were tossed, Oh, what a careless child! One day her uncle bought a toy,That round and round would twirl.But when he foundThe littered ground,He said, I dont tee-totums buy,For…
Nursery rhymes
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