Rhymes for the nursery By the authors of "Original Poems" [i.e. Ann Taylor]. Twenty-seventeenth edition |
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The little Girl that could not read.
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The little Girl that could not read.
I don't know my letters, and what shall I do?
For I've got a nice book, but I can't read it through!
O dear, how I wish that my letters I knew!
For I've got a nice book, but I can't read it through!
O dear, how I wish that my letters I knew!
I think I had better begin them to-day,
For 'tis like a dunce to be always at play:
Mamma, will you teach little baby great A?
For 'tis like a dunce to be always at play:
Mamma, will you teach little baby great A?
And then, B and C, as they stand in the row,
One after another, as far as they go,
For then I can read my new story, you know.
One after another, as far as they go,
For then I can read my new story, you know.
So pray, mamma, teach me at once, and you'll see
What a very good child little baby will be,
To try and remember her A, B, C, D.
What a very good child little baby will be,
To try and remember her A, B, C, D.
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