She went to the sempstress
To buy him some linen,
But when she came back,
The Dog was a-spinning.
.
She went to the hosier’s
To buy him some hose,
But when she came back,
He was drest in his clothes.
.
She went to the sempstress
To buy him some linen,
But when she came back,
The Dog was a-spinning.
.
Mother Hubbard
Illustrations by Walter Crane
John Lane & The Bodley Head: London & New York. Ca 1910.
It is a sin; it is a theft; it is an infamy,” he said, slowly, his eyes fastened on the gilded feet of Hirschvogel.
“Oh, August, do not say such things of father!” sobbed his sister. “Whatever he does, we ought to think it right.”
August laughed aloud.
“Is it right that he should spend his money in drink? – that he should let orders lie unexecuted? – that he should do his work so ill that no one cares to employ him? – that he should live on grandfather’s charity, and then dare sell a thing that is ours every whit as much as it is his? To sell Hirschvogel! Oh, dear God! I would sooner sell my soul!”
The Nurnberg Stove.
Louisa de la Rame.
Illustrated by Maria L. Kirk.
J. B. Lippincott Company: Philadelphia and London. 1916.
Pussy & Mice
Some little mice sat in a barn to spin,
Pussy came by, and she popped her head in;
“Shall I come in and cut your threads off?”
“Oh no, kind sir, you will snap our heads off.”
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes.
McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1900.
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