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 430
) the bread and milk abont;But let it stand before you flat.And pray remember pussy cat;Poor old pussy cat that purrsAll so i^aticntly foi hers. True she runs about the house,Catching now and then a mouse.But, though she thinks it very nice.That only makes a tiny slice;So dont forget that you… … THE COW Thank you, pretty cow, that madePleasant milk, to soak my bread;Every day, and every night.Warm, and fresh, and sweet, and white. Do not chew the hemlock rank,Growing on the weedy bank;But the yellow cowslips eat.They will make it very sweet. Where the purple violet grows,Where the bubbling…
Nursery rhymes
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