St. Nicholas/Volume 40/Number 10/Mother Goose

LITTLE BO-PEEP

Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And can't tell where to find them;
Leave them alone and they ‘Il come
home,
And bring their tails behind them.

Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,
And dreamt she heard them
bleating;
But when she awoke, she found
it a joke,
For they were still a-fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook,
Determined for to find them;
She found them indeed, but it
made her heart bleed,
For they ‘d left their tails
behind them.

THREE BLIND MICE

Three blind mice! See how they run!
They all ran after the farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with the carving-
knife,—

Did you ever see such fun in your life
Did you‍As three blind mice?

PUSSY-CAT, PUSSY-CAT

“Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat, where have you been?”
“I ’ve been up to London to look at the Queen.”
“Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat, what did you there?”
“I frightened a little mouse under the chair.”