. Home songs for little people . IY FJABBIT. LITTLE Bonnie, I 11 treat you well;If I dont you cannot tell;But the great God who lives on highHe will hear your piteous cry. 80 HOME SONGS. Our God made you as well as me-Me so big, and you so wee;And sure am I he loves us too;So you love me, and I love you! HEN. WILL you take a walk with me, My little wife, to-day ?Theres barley in the barley-field, And hay-seed in. the hay. Thank you, said the clucking hen, I ve something else to do ; I m busy sitting on. my eggs,I cannot walk with you. • Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck ! Said the clucking
. Home songs for little people . IY FJABBIT. LITTLE Bonnie, I 11 treat you well;If I dont you cannot tell;But the great God who lives on highHe will hear your piteous cry. 80 HOME SONGS. Our God made you as well as me-Me so big, and you so wee;And sure am I he loves us too;So you love me, and I love you! HEN. WILL you take a walk with me, My little wife, to-day ?Theres barley in the barley-field, And hay-seed in. the hay. Thank you, said the clucking hen, I ve something else to do ; I m busy sitting on. my eggs,I cannot walk with you. • Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck ! Said the clucking hen : My little chicks will soon be hatched, I 11 think about it then. The clucking hen sat on her nest, She made it on the hay;And warm and snug beneath her breast A dozen white eggs lay. HOME SONGS. c< ii Gome along, my little chicks,Ill take a walk with you. Hollo ! said the barn-door cock, Oock-a-doodle doo! 81 Crack, crack! went all the eggs,Out crept the chickens small;Cluck ! said the clucking hen,Now I have you THREE IN A BED. GAY little velvet coats,One, two, three ;Any home happierCould there be ? 82 HOME SONGS. Topsy and John And sleepy NedPurring so cosily, Three in a bed ! Woe to the stupid mouse Prowling about!Old mother Pussy Is on the cats, big cats, All must be fed,In the sky-parlor, Three in a bed! Mothers a gypsy puss; Often she moves,Thinking much travel Her children family, Very well bred;No falling out, you see! Three in a bed! I HAD a good lesson,Which was not thrown away:Work away while you re able,Work, work away. HOME SONGS. 83
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