Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 386
sire; And though they were neither grave, sullen, nor mute, They seldom or never were heard to dispute. If one wants a thing that the other could get, They dont go to scratching or fighting for it; But each one is willing to give up her right. For they d rather have nothing than quarrel and fight.… … When papa or mamma had a job to be done,These good little girls would immediately run;And not stand disputing to which it belonged,And grumble, and fret, and declare they werewronged. Whatever occurred in their work or their play.They are wilHng to yield, and give up their own way:Then let us try…
Nursery rhymes
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