Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 325
And I, said Tom, wont play with SamAlthough he has a top :But here the pretty little lambTo talking put a stop. The Daisy THE GIDDY GIRL Miss Helex was always too giddy to heedWhat her mother had told her to shun; For frequently over the street at full speed,She would cross where the carriages run.… … And out she would go, to a very deep well, To look at the water below;How naughty! to run to a dangerous well, Where her mother forbade her to go! One morning, intenduig to take but a peep,Her foot slipped away from the ground; Unhappy misfortune ! the water was deep,And giddy Miss Helen was…
Nursery rhymes
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