Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 428
Heres the stool, and heres the chairFor my Httle lady fair. No, you must uot spill it out,And drop the bread and milk about;But let it stand before you flat.And pray remember pussy cat;Poor old pussy cat that purrsAll so patiently for hers. True she runs about the house.Catching now and then a… … THE COW Thaxk you, pretty cow, that madePleasant milk, to soak my bread;Every day, and every night,Warm, and fresh, and sweet, and white. Do not chew the hemlock rank.Growing on the weedy bank;But the yellow cowslips eat.They will make it very sweet. Where the purple violet grows.Where the bubbling…
Nursery rhymes
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