Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 50
duchesss daughter in marriage? Seize the shoemaker, so you may! Big boots a-hunting. Sandals in the hall. White for a wedding feast. And pink for a ball: This way, that way. So we make a shoe, Getting rich every stitch, Tick-tack-too! Nine and ninety treasure crocks This keen miser-fairy hath. Hid… … THIS WAY, THAT WAY, SO WE MAKE A SHOE I caught him at work one day myself, In the castle ditch where the foxglove grows, A wrinkled, wizened and bearded elf, Spectacles stuck on the top of his nose, Silver buckles to his hose, Leather apron, shoe in his lap- Rip-rap, tip-tap. Tick-tack-too! 36 The…
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