Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 42
24 FAVOURITES OF A NURSERY So he laid himself down in the shade of a tree,And shut u]) his eyes and slept peacefully. The Httle hare saw him, and out she crept,Stole slyly toward him, and w hile he slept,She took off his spectacles, picked up his gun,And softly on tip-toe away she did run. She… … He screamed out for help, and like lightning he flew, He 11 shoot me ! Oh, help me ! Oh, good people, do! THE WILD HUNTSMAN 25 The brave hunters breath was now ahnost spent, He saw a deep well, quickly toward it he went, He stopped for a moment, then into it sprang, The hare pulled the trigger, off…
Nursery rhymes
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