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 321
y saw some berries, bright and red,That hnne: aronnd and overhead. And soon the bongh they bended downTo make the scarlet fruit their own;And part they ate, and part in playThey threw about and flung away. But long they had not been at homeBefore poor Jane and little Tom Were taken sick aiul ill,… … PETER Poor Petei- was l^nrnt b}- the poker one (hiy,AVhen he made it look ])retty and red I For the beautiful sparks made him think it line l>«iy,To hft it as hia-h as his head. 302 FAVOURITES OF A NURSERY But somehow it happened, his finger and thumbWere terribly scorched by the heat; And he…
Nursery rhymes
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