Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 318
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… … POISOISrOUS FRUIT As Tommy and his sister JaneWere walking down a shady lane,They saw some berries, bright and red,That hung around and overhead. And soon the bough they bended dow^nTo make the scarlet fruit their own;And part they ate, and part in playThey threw about and flung away. But long they…
Nursery rhymes
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