Disappointment?

The Bicycle Davie Did Not Get.

 Poor Davie! He cried himself to sleep thinking of the loss his fault had caused him. But the disappointment did him good.

Tom Thumb and Other Stories.

McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1904.

 

 

 

Cupid Will Hurt You!

THE SAUCY BOY.

The good old man lay upon the floor crying; he was really shot in the heart. “Oh!” he cried, “what a naughty boy this Cupid is! I shall tell all the good children about this, so that they take care never to play with him, lest he hurt them.”

Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen.

Henry Altemus Company: Philadelphia. Ca 1920.

Eat, Beat, Cry!

“Away He Run”

Tom, Tom, the piper’s son,

Stole a pig, and away he run;

The pig was eat,

And Tom was beat,

And Tom ran crying down the street.

Mother Goose  –  Volland Popular Edition.

Edited by Eulalie Osgood Grover.

Illustrated by Frederick Richardson.

Published by P. F. Volland Company:  New York, Chicago & Toronto.  1921.

Cry Baby!

“Cry, Baby, Cry.”

 

Cry, baby, cry,

Put your finger in your eye,

And tell your mother it wasn’t I.

 

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes.

McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1900.