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 431
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… … THKEP] LITTLE KITTENS TiiuEE little kittens lost theii* mittens;And they beg-an to cry.Oh! mother, dear, we very mneh fearThat we have lost our mittens.Lost your mittens ! you naughty kittens !Then you shall have no pie. Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow.No, you shall have no j)ie.Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow. The…
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