Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 319
ane,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 had not been at homeBefore poor Jane and little Tom PETER 301 Were taken… … PETEE Poor Peter was burnt by the poker one day,When he made it look pretty and red! For the beautiful sparks made him think it fine play.To lift it as hio-h as his head. 302 FAVOURITES OF A NURSERY But somehow it happened, his finger and thumbWere terribly scorched by the heat; And he screamed out…
Nursery rhymes
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