Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 371
Turn not your meat, nor view it close,ISTor ever hold it to your nose.If in your food should chance to beWhat cant be eat conveniently,Such as small bones, or stones of fruit,Which will not with digestion suit,Remove them from your mouth aw^ay.Or on your plate with silence lay.Throw not a morsel on… … Set not your knife and fork up straight.Gaze not upon anothers plate.And bend a little oer your meat —Look not on others while they eat. 354 FAVOURITES OF A NURSERY
Nursery rhymes
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