...intent laboured to wrest many poetical fables." PIGMY TALE. " There was an old woman, and she lived in a shoe, She had so many children she didn't know what to do ; She went to the market to buy them some bread, But when she came home she found them all dead. She went...

...from my Mother's old Arm-Chair. E. COOKE. SHE THAT LIVED IN A SHOE. THERE was an old woman who lived in a shoe ; She had so many children she did'nt know...to do. She gave them some broth without any bread, Then whipt them all soundly and sent them to bed. GAMMER GURTON. BE WISE AND LIVE. HE who fights and...

...LXXIX. [Another version, from " Infant Institutes," 8vo, Lon. 1797, p. 31.] THERE was an old woman, and she liv'd in a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do: She crumm'd 'em some porridge without any bread, And she borrow'da beetle, and she knock'd 'em all o' th'...

...there is a baby — here's another : — 216 TOM CROSBIE'S TALE. " There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she didn't know what to do." That's not sentimental enough — deuce take it ! I know I'm poetical — I feel it ; but I can't remember...

...kiss you dearly? Thank you, kind sir, I hear you very clearly. CLXXI. THERE was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she didn't know what to do; CLXXII. THERE was an old woman sat spinning, And that's the first beginning; She had a calf, And that's...

...surprised that the vicarage did not adopt the standard version : — " There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she didn't know what to do; She gare them some broth without any bread, She whipped them all well and sent them to bed." So I learned...

...poke, Toss'd her into an oak, Before the old gentleman miss'd her. ''THERE was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she didn't know what to do ; She gave them some soup without any bread, Then whipped them all soundly, and sent them to bed. '"PHERE was an old woman,...

...half inclined to believe that to these facts we owe the famous rhyme about the " old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children she didn't know what to do." Isaac Vergoose died November 29, 1710, aged 73 years. His will is dated May 9, 1710, and was recorded...

...For our old sow is in a swoon." THE OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE. THERE was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she didn't know...to do ; She gave them some broth without any bread, Then whipped them all soundly, and sent them to bed. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. THIS is the house that...

.... . 245 LIFE SKETCHES, AND ECHOES FROM THE VALLEY. $. JjIouseM o " There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she didn't know what to do." MANY people feel a pity for those women who are illustrations of that old rhyme. And there are plenty...