Stokes' wonder-book-of Mother Goose / with twelve illustrations in color and 138 in black-and-white by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis (1919)
Choate, Florence, Curtis, Elizabeth · New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co. · leaf 115
am told,He neer stood still for young or old. He often squeakd and sometimes vilent,And when he squeakd he neer was silent;Though neer instructed by a cat,He knew a mouse was not a rat. One day, as I am certified,He took a whim and fairly died;And, as Im told by men of sense-He never has been… … A A Diller, a Dollar. DILLER, a dollar, A ten oclock scholar, What makes you come so soon?You used to come at ten oclock,But now you come at noon. The Rose is red. THE rose is red, the violet blue;Sugar is sweet—and so are you.These are the words you bade me sayFor a pair of new gloves on Easter…