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One time when pa-pa and
mam-ma were gone, Ann staid
out at the gate and talked
with oth-er cooks, and left
Ba-by Joe and Sue, and Flake
and Fleece all a-lone, and
Ba-by Joe want-ed to "go
bed." So, like a lit-tle wom-
an, Sue took off her own
lit-tle clothes and un-dressed
Ba-by Broth-er, and then Ba-
by Broth-er would-n't have on
his night-gown and cried, and
Ann did-n't come in to help,
though Fleece and Flake
barked to her loud, very loud.
What did pa-pa and mam-ma
see when they came? Four
lit-tle white crea-tures, nest-ed
in two big chairs; Ba-by Joe
and Sue a-sleep in one, Flake
and Fleece in an-oth-er.
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A FIN-GER SONG.
{To be said on Ba-by s Fin-gers.)
I. Shall have an ap-ple;
II. Shall have a pear;
III. Shall have a lit-tle kid, of which he'll take good care;
IV. Shall have some can-dy;
V. Shall have a ride;
VI. Shall have a lit-tle sword, all buck-led on his side;
VII. Shall have a po-ny;
VIII. Shall have a sled;
IX. Shall have a dream-ing cap, and
X. Shall go to bed,
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The birds in the grove
know lit-tle farm-house Kate.
The fish-es in the brook know
lit-tle farm-house Kate. She
is the girl that walks a-bout
with her a-pron full of nice
crumbs.
The first morn-ing this win-
ter that the brook froze o-ver,
Kate went down to the bank
and broke the ice with a stick,
and fed the fish-es with bread'
crumbs.
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Tom-my goes ev-er-y day to
look at a board in the gar-den
fence. There are four lit-tle
hacks in that board, one a-bove
an-oth-er, made with a knife,
the first hack shows how tall
Tom-my was when he was one
year old; the sec-ond how tall
when he was two; the third
how tall when he was three;
and yes-ter-day Nel-ly made a
hack for the fourth birth-day.
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Floss and Fluff were the
hap-pi-est dogs in the world.
Floss knew how to snap, and
Fluff knew how to whine,
and if they had been let to
go hun-gry, or cold, or had
been scold-ed, they'd have
been cross, naught-y dogs.
But Floss and Fluff had
good mas-ter. He was a
lit-tle boy on-ly six years
old, but he was a first-rate
mas-ter. His pa-pa said when
he brought Floss and Fluff
home:
"Now, Fred-dy, just as
long as these lit-tle fel-lows
are hap-py, just so long they
are yours!"
Fred-dy knew what that
meant. He fed his beau-ti-ful
pets at reg-u-lar hours ev-er-y
day, and e-ver-y day he combed
and brushed them, and ev-er-y
day he took them out for a
a frol-ic, and they had their
baths at the right time, and
he nev-er held up a bone and
did not give it to them. Be-
cause he was so prompt and
true and kind, Fred-dy was
hap-py, and so were Fluff
and Floss.
This is lit-tle Ro-sa-belle—
No! I beg her par-don,
This is Ma-dame Mob-cap,
Walk-ing in her gar-den.
What a fine cap it is!
What a wide bor-der!
Spec-ta-cles and walk-ing-stick,
And ev-er-y-thing in or-der.
Hop, toads, clear the way!
Bees, hush your hum-ming!
La-dy-birds and but-ter-flies,
Grand folks are com-ing!
Nev-er think she'll look at you,
Vi-o-lets and dai-sies!
You're quite too in-sig-nif-i-cant
For such a la-dy's prais-es.
She must have a king-cup,
And a prince's feath-er,
With a crown-im-pe-ri-al,
Tied up to-geth-er.
That will suit your Maj-es-ty,
Ma-dame Ro-sa-bel-la!
And here's a gold-en sun-flow-er
To make you an um-brel-la.
"Pooh!" says lit-tle Ro-sa-belle,
Pluck-ing some car-na-tions;
"You may keep your sun-flow-ers,
And all their rich re-la-tions.
"Give me a bunch of vi-o-lets,
And one of those white ros-es,
And take your crown-im-pe-ri-al
To folks that have no nos-es."
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The ba-by in the house and
the ba-by in the barn, are
great friends. The barn ba-
by is not per-mit-ted to come
in-to the house, but the house
ba-by vis-its the barn ev-er-y
day.
The house ba-by is a year
old, and the barn ba-by is
just a year old too; but the
house ba-by can on-ly take
lit-tle trem-bling steps, hold-
ing fast by moth-er's hand,
while the barn ba-by, if he
can on-ly get out of doors,
throws up his heels and runs
a-cross the fields, and no-bod-y
can catch him. The house
ba-by laughs to see him go, and
dear-ly likes his red hair, and
feel his two stout lit-tle horns,
And I think the barn ba-by likes to
feel the soft hand of
his lit-tle
friend
from the
house, for
some-times
there is salt, and
some-times there
is su-gar on the
lit-tle pink palm,
and the barn ba-
by licks it off
with his rough
tongue. Once the barn ba-by
tried to say, "Thank you."
He tried this way: He reached
his head up and licked the
house ba-by's rose-pink cheek. The
house ba-by was scared, and so was the
house ba-by's moth-er—and she ran in-to
the house with him just as fast as she could; and
then pa-pa laughed at them both, and the barn ba-by
stood and looked over the fence for half an hour.
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Bo-peep was Jack Hor-ner's
lit-tle sis-ter. When he had
his Christ-mas pie she was a
wee ba-by. But the next
Christ-mas, mam-ma hung up
her own lit-tle red-and-white
speck-led stock-ing for her.
Christ-mas morning there
was a great time. Bo-peep
sat on the bed, and shouted
"Goo! goo!" and pulled the
things out her-self from the
gay lit-tle stuffed stock-ing.
A lit-tle white rab-bit peeped
out at the top. His eyes were
made of pink beads. He had
a clov-er leaf in his mouth.
Then came a chi-na pus-sy,
black and yel-low and white.
Then a brown mouse and a
white one. The brown mouse
was choc-o-late. The white
one was su-gar: and Bo-peep
bit off the choc-o-late tail
and a su-gar ear at once.
There was a knit dol-ly, in
a bright blue dress and blue
shoes.
And a-way down in the toe
of the stock-ing, there was a
lit-tle chi-na hen. She sat in
her nest. The nest was chi-na
too. Bo-peep took her off, and
what do you think she had for
eggs? Pink-and-white car-a-
way seeds!
When Bo-peep went to bed
that night, the lit-tle red stock-
ing was left on the car-pet. In
the morn-ing mam-ma heard a
rus-tle in the stock-ing, and
shook it. Out ran a gray
mous-ie, a real, live mous-ie!
Two or three of Bo-peep's
lit-tle pink-and-white car-a-way
eggs had stayed in the toe of
the stock-ino-. Mous-ie had
smelt them in the night, and had
crept in to get his share of Christ-mas
So Bo-peep thinks she had
two Christ-mas morn-ings.
Wasn't that fun-ny?
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