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 154
ctantly Avent, With water to splash himself oer,l>ut he left the l)lack streaks all over his cheeks, And made them look worse than before. The pigs in the dirt could nt be more expert Than he was, at grubbing about;And the jxople have thought, this gentlemen ought, To be made with foui- legs and… … FALSE ALARMS Little Mary, one day, most loudly did call;Mamma! Oh, mamma, pray come here!A fall I have had! Oh, a very sad fall! Mamma ran in haste and in fear;Then Mary jumped up, and she laughed in great glee, And cried, Why, how fast you can run!No harm has befallen, I assure you, to me, My…
Nursery rhymes
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