Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 342
But when the cause she came to learn,She bade her daughter back return,So see the worm asfain. The worm they found kept writhing round,Until it sunk beneath the ground. And Sally learned that dayThat worms are very harmless things.With neither teeth, nor claws, nor stings, To frighten her away. The… … THE BIKD-CATCHER The cats in the window and Shocks at the door; The pussy-cat mews and the Httle dog barks;For, see, such a sight as I neer saw before, A boy with a cage full of linnets and larks! And pussy the way how to catch them is seeking.To kill them, and spoil all their singing, poor things;…
Nursery rhymes
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