She went to the fruiterer's
To buy him some fruit;
But when she came back,
He was playing the flute.

She went to the tailor's
To buy him a coat;
But when she came back,
He was riding a goat.

She went to the cobbler's
To buy him some shoes;
But when she came back,

He was reading the news.

She went to the seamstress
To buy him some linen;
But when she came back,
The dog was spinning.

She went to the hosier's
To buy him some hose;

But when she came back,

He was dressed in his clothes.

The dame made a curtsy,
The dog made a bow;

The dame said, Your servant,

The dog said, Bow, wow.

BED IN SUMMER.

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RUNAWAY BROOK.

"Stop, stop, pretty water!"
Said Mary one day,
To a frolicsome brook,
That was running away.

"You run on so fast!

I wish you would stay; My boat and my flowers You will carry away.

"But I will run after:

Mother says that I may;

For I would know where
You are running away."

So Mary ran on;

But I have heard say,
That she never could find
Where the brook ran away.

BED IN SUMMER.

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

AT THE SEASIDE.

When I was down beside the sea
A wooden spade they gave to me
To dig the sandy shore.

My holes were empty like a cup,
every hole the sea came up,
Till it could come no more.

In

THE MEETING OF THE SHIPS.

When o'er the silent seas alone,

For days and nights we've cheerless gone, Oh, they who've felt it know how sweet, Some sunny morn a sail to meet.

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Sparkling at once is ev'ry eye,

Ship ahoy! ship ahoy!" our joyful cry; While answering back the sounds we hear, 'Ship ahoy! ship ahoy! what cheer? what cheer?"

Then sails are back'd, we nearer come,
Kind words are said of friends and home;
And soon, too soon, we part with pain,
To sail o'er silent seas again.

PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS.

A barking dog seldom bites.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. A cat may look at a king.

A chip of the old block.

A day after the fair.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.

A fool may make money, but it needs a wise man to spend it.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A good garden may have some weeds.
A good workman is known by his chips.
A hard beginning makes a good ending.

Three little kittens lost their mittens,
And they began to cry:

"O mother dear, we very much fear
That we have lost our mittens."

"Lost your mittens, you naughty kittens! Then shall have no pie."

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"Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow!
And we can have no pie.
Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow!"

Once I saw a little bird
Come hop, hop, hop;
So I cried, "Little bird,

Will you stop, stop, stop?"

And was going to the window
"How do you do?"

To say,

But he shook his little tail,

And far away he flew.

One misty, moisty morning,
When cloudy was the weather,
I chanced to meet an old man

Clothed all in leather

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He began to compliment,
And I began to grin, —