the baker-man, and as they grew older they were The naturally much better behaved. Woman Who a Shoe Before many years the boys were old enough to Lived in work for the neighboring farmers, and that made the woman's family a good deal smaller. And then the girls grew up and married, and found homes of their own, so that all the children were in time well provided for. But not one of them forgot the kind grandmother who had taken such good care of them, and often they tell their children of the days when they lived with the old woman in a shoe and frightened the baker-man almost into fits with their wooden tomahawks. L Little Miss Muffet Little Miss Muffet There came a great spider And sat down beside her ITTLE MISS MUFFET'S father was Miss a big Little banker in a big city, and he had so much Muffet money that the house he lived in was almost as beautiful as a king's palace. It was built of granite and marble, and richly furnished with every luxury that money can buy. There was an army of servants about the house, and many of them had no other duties than to wait upon Miss Muffet, for the little girl was an only child and therefore a personage of great importance. She had a maid to dress her hair and a maid to bathe her, a maid to serve her at table and a maid to tie her shoestrings, and several maids beside. And then there was Nurse Holloweg to look after all the maids and see they did their tasks properly. The child's father spent his days at his office and his evenings at his club; her mother was a leader in society, and therefore fully engaged from morning till |