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 269
his face, with his knowing green eyes,And thus in an accent uncommonly shrillHe warmly rephed to our wondering Will. Good breeding forbids that I walk thro the streetsAmong all the elite without boots to my feet:Just order a pair and I 11 soon let you seeIf Johnny and Jacob are richer than we.… … III Puss uioiintcd tlu armchair, as o^ravo as a jiid<4T But Will, with a smile at this joke of the brutes,Said, ^[easuio oui* fiiend for a stout ])air of boots. 250 FAVOURITES OF A NURSERY
Nursery rhymes
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