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 345
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; For singing to them is like little boys speaking; But fear makes them chirrup and flutter their wings. SUSAN AND PATTY S2.> Do not tVai. pretty birds; for puss… … SUSAN AND P.Vl^TY Oh ! sister Snsan ! come, pray come,And see how I have cut my thumb,Cried little Patty Green; It bleeds, it bleeds, what shall I do?The knife has cut my finger too;How naughty I have been! 326 FAVOURITES OF A NURSERY ^ My mother only yesterday,I know, desired me not to play. With…
Nursery rhymes
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