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 239
ome, andthen, perhaps, they would have asked her to breakfast;for they were good Bears, — a little rough or so, as themanner of Bears is, but for all that, very good-naturedand hospitable. So first she tasted the porridge of the Great, HugeBear, and that was too hot for her. And then she tastedthe… … too hot nor too cold, but just right; and she hked it sowell, that she ate it all np. Then httle Silver-hair sate down in the ehair of theGreat, Huge Bear, and that was too haid for her. .Vndthen she sate down in the ehaii* of the ^fiddle IJear, andthat was too soft for her. And then she sate down…
Nursery rhymes
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