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 119
er into an oak,Before the old gentleman missed her. [87] STOKES WONDER BOOK OF MOTHER GOOSE S St. Swithins Day. T. SWITHINS DAY, if thou dost rain,For forty days it will remain:St. Swithins Day, if thou be fair,For forty days twill rain na mair. I // Wishes were Horses. F wishes were horses,Beggars… … THERE was an old woman tossed up in a basket,Seventy times as high as the moon.What she did there I could not but ask it,For in her hand she carried a broom. Old woman, old woman, old woman, said I,Oh whither, oh whither, oh whither so high?To sweep the cobwebs off the sky,And I shall be back again…