. St. Nicholas [serial]. ^WJtme^^^imMiAjmm SISTER BETTYS LITTLE STORY. 608. This is the tale that Betty toldTo the baby brother, as good as gold,As he cuddled down with a listening airIn her lap as she sat in the rocking-chair: There once was a boy who came through the gate,And he saw by the sun he would surely be lateIf away to the school-house he did nt run;So he went like a shot — and that makes i. Past the old mill-pond, past the old mill,Past the old churchyard, a-running still;When out of the churchyard a little dog flewAnd kept at his heels — and that makes 2. Down to the turnpike, and
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ^WJtme^^^imMiAjmm SISTER BETTYS LITTLE STORY. 608. This is the tale that Betty toldTo the baby brother, as good as gold,As he cuddled down with a listening airIn her lap as she sat in the rocking-chair: There once was a boy who came through the gate,And he saw by the sun he would surely be lateIf away to the school-house he did nt run;So he went like a shot — and that makes i. Past the old mill-pond, past the old mill,Past the old churchyard, a-running still;When out of the churchyard a little dog flewAnd kept at his heels — and that makes 2. Down to the turnpike, and on to the spring,You might almost have thought they were birds on the a girl with a book-bag, under a tree,She also joined in — and that makes 3. The three, like a whirl of the gustiest wind,Left the mill and the spring and the tree far behind;Then they startled a cow down back of the store;She joined the procession—and that makes 4. The girl and the boy and the old moo-cowAnd the little dog barking a bow-wow-wow,They all were attacked at a hornets hiveB
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