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 336
i])ting to throwA very large stone, when it fell on her toe;The boys who were j)resent, and saw what was done,Set up a loud lau<;h, and they called it fine fun.But I took her home, and the doctor soon came.And Aiiues, I fear, will a long time be lame.And from morniug till night, she laments… … DANCING Oh, dear, I must wear my Iecl slippers to-day,And where are my gloves, and my parasol, pray?Im always delighted when Friday is come, better than stajnng at home. For I like dancing But my mother says dancing was never designed,To be to positions and stej^ping confined;But dancing should…
Nursery rhymes
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