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Rhymes for the nursery. By the authors of 'Original poems'.
Rhymes for the nursery By the authors of 'Original poems' Author:Ann Taylor Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: What! baby is sleepy, and tired with play ? Come, Betty, make haste then, and fetch her away; But do not be fretful, my darling, because Mamma cannot love ... more »little girls that are cross. She shall soon go to bed and forget it all there. Ah! here's her sweet smile come again, I declare: That's right, for I thought you quite naughty before: Good night, my dear girl, but don't fret any more. Charles and Animals. The cow has a horn, and the fish has a gill; The horse has a hoof, and the duck has a bill; The bird has a wing, that on high he may sail; And the lion a mane, and the monkey a tail! And they swim, or they fly, or they walk, or they eat, With fin, or with wing, or with bill,-or with feet. And Charles has two hands, with five fingers to each, On purpose to work with, to hold, and to reach; No birds, beasts, or-fishes, for work or for Have any thing half so convenient as they ; But if he don't use them, and keep them in use, He'd better have had but two legs, like a goose. Breakfast and Puss. Here's my baby's bread and milk, For her lip as soft as silk; Here's the basin, clean and neat, Here's the spoon of silver sweet, Here's the stool, and here's the chair, For my little lady fair. No, you must not spill it out, And drop the bread and milk about; But let it stand before you flat, And pray remember pussy cat: Poor old pussy cat, that purrs All so patiently for hers. True, she runs about the house, Catching, now and then, a mouse; But, though she thinks it very nice, That only makes a tiny slice. So don't forget that you should stop, And leave poor puss a little drop. The Flower and the Lady, about getting up. Pretty flower, tell me why All your leaves do open wide, Every morning when on high The noble su...« less