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 389
When papa or mamma had a job to be done,These good Httle girls wonld immediately Inn;And not stand disputing to which it belonged,And grumble, and fret, and declare they werewronged. Whatever occurred in their work or their play.They are wilHng to yield, and give np their own way:Then let ns try… … THE GLEANER Before the bright sun rises over the liill.In tlie cornfield poor ]\Iary is seen, lnii)atient her little blue apron to fill AVith the few scattered ears she can ^lean. She never leaves off, nor runs out of her ])lace To play, or to idle, and chat;Except now and then just to wipe hei hot…
Nursery rhymes
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