Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 167
the Old Bachelor out. MOTHER GOOSE. [Wiping her spectacles.] Thatboy is such a trial. There s the Old Bachelornow, he s cute. I made a few verses about him.[Recites in a sentimental sing-song.] When I was a bachelor I lived by myself. And all the bread and cheese I got I put upon the shelf.… … The streets were so broad and the lanes were so narrow,That I had to fetch the wife home on a wheelbarrow. [Enter the Old Bachelor with empty wheelbarrow.] The wheelbarrow broke and my wife got a fall,And away went wheelbarrow, wife and all ! [The Bachelor wheels twice or three times across the…
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