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 372
)()on with gentleness. 352 FAVOURITES OF A NURSERY … Turn not your meat, iioi* view it close,^or ever hold it to your nose.If in your food should chance to beWhat cant be eat conveniently,Such as small bones, or stones of fruit,Which will not with digestion suit.Remove them from your mouth away.Or on your plate with silence lay.Throw not a morsel on…
Nursery rhymes
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