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 344
But when the cause slie came to learn,She bade her daughtei* back i-eturn, So see the worm a^ain. The worm tliev found l<ei)t writhinsf round.Until it sunk beneath the o^round, And Sally learned that dayThat worms are very liarmkss thino-s.With ncithei* teeth, noi* claws, nor stin^^s. To… … THE BIRD-CATCHEK The cats in the window and Shocks at the door:The pussy-cat mews and the little dog barks; For, see, such a sight as I neer saw before,A boy with a cage full of linnets and larks! And pussy the way how to catch them is seeking,To kill them, and spoil all their singing, poor things;…
Nursery rhymes
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