Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston, New York : Houghton Miffin Company · leaf 138
d cried,•■Though you hid her j)hiy with you,Pussy cannot, l*tisst/\s fled. She must stand and hold my doll,And, to keep her steady there,That she may not let it fall,I have tied hei* to the chair. Hearing what her children said,Mamma soon set the pussy free; Then Miss Georgie hung hei- head. —Lucy… … DOLLYS DOCTOE Mary: Come and see my baby dear:Doctor, she is ill, I fear.Yesterday, do what I would,She would touch no kind of food;And she tosses, moans, and cries.Doctor, what do you advise? Doctor: Hum! ha! Good madam, tell me, pray,What have you offered her to-day?Ah, yes! I see: a piece of…
Nursery rhymes
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