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 447
Upon your little finger, thus, With needle pointed to your chest. You now may gently pull it through;That is the way to do it best. The thimble on this finger placed. You have not learned to use, my sweet; But gently go, be not in haste,So will you do it nice and neat. And then, by practising and… … mrnl LEAENING TO DKAW Co3iE, here are a slate and a pencil and string,So let us sit down, and draw some pretty thing;A man, and a cow, and a horse, and a tree.And when you have finished, pray show them to me. What! cannot you do it? Shall I show you how?Come, give me your pencil, I 11 draw you a…
Nursery rhymes
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