Pussy sits behind the log,How can she be fair? Then comes in the little dog,Pussy, are you there? So, so, dear Mistress Pussy,Pray tell me how you do. I thank you kindly, little dog,Im very well just now. Needles and pins, needles and pins,When a man marries his trouble begins. 43 THERE WAS A… … He carried it home To his old wife Joan,And bade her a fire for to make, make, make; To roast the little duck, Hed shot in the brook, And hed go fetch her the drake, drake, drake. 44 I SAW A SHIP A-SAILING. I saw a ship a-sailing, A-sailing on the sea,And, oh! it was all laden With pretty things…
Nursery rhymes · Fairy tales
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