Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 444
LEARNI]SrG TO SEW Will my baby try and sew? A bhinted needle I have oot.With mushn soft to run it through. And thread thats fastened with a knot. And pencilled dots mamma has madeWhere every little stitch should go; There, push it in, be not afraid,But you must try to hold it so. 426 FAVOURITES OF… … Upon your little finger, thus, With needle pointed to your chest, You now may gently pull it through;That is the way to do it best. The thimble on this finger placed, You have not learned to use, my sweet; But gently go, be not in haste,So will you do it nice and neat. And then, by practising and…
Nursery rhymes
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