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 77
is cooling stream the warm cattle would stray,To stand in the shade on a hot summers day. A Cow, quite oppressed with the heat of the sun,Came here to refresh, as she often had done;And standing stock-still, leaning over the stream,Was musing, perhaps, or perhaps she might dream. THE COW AND THE… … *Take a seat, cried the Cow, gently waving her hand; By no means, dear madam, said lie, while yon stand Then stoo])ing to drink, with a com])Iaisant bow,]\raaiii. your health, said the Ass; Thank you, sir,said the Cow. When a few of these compliments more liad been past,They laid themselves down on…
Nursery rhymes
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