Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 75
low;To this cooling stream the warm cattle would stray.To stand in the shade on a hot summers day. A Cow, quite oppressed with the heat of the sun,Came here to refresh, as she often had done;And standing stock-still, leaning over the stream,Was musing, perhaps, or pei-haps she might dream. TEE COW… … Take a seat, cried the Cow, gently weaving her hand;By no means, dear madam, said he, while you stand:Then stooping to drink, with a complaisant bow,Maam, your health, said the Ass; Thank you, sir,said the Cow. When a few of these compliments more had been past.They laid themselves down on the…
Nursery rhymes
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