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 385
my work-time, I ought to sit still,And I know that I ought, so I certainly will. But for fear, after all, I should get at my play,I will put my wax doll in the closet away;And I 11 not look to see what the kitten is doing,Noi* yet think of anything else but my sewing. TIIK VISIT Sf). I m soiM-y I… … TllE VISIT ^Do yon ^o to Xorton, mannna, this next week?I wish yon had leisnre to listen to jne,For when you are writino^ I dont like to speak.And that lettei* Avill never he tinished, I see/ I will lay down my pen, then, my dear little child,Foi- I see yon have minded the lesson we read;Come, jump…
Nursery rhymes
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