...Where's your money ? I forgot. Get you gone, you drunken sot. There was an old woman, she liv'd in a shoe, She had so many children she didn't know what to do. She gave them some broth without any bread, She whipt them. all soundly and put them to bed. Heigh ding...

...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...

...And a little silk handkerchief, To wipe his little nose. LXH. 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 broth without any bread, She whipped them all well and put them to bed. LXIII. [The...

...WOMAN, HER (NEWCASTLE PROGRAMME) SHOE, AND HER IMPORTUNATE CHILDREN. (An old Nursery Rhyme Re-adapttd.) THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN HER SHOE, SHE HAD so MANV CHILDREN SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ; SO SHK GAVE THEM SOME BROTH WITHOUT ANY BREAD, THEN " WHIPPED...

...And a little silk handkerchief, To wipe his little nose. LXII. THEEE 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 broth without any bread, She whipped them all well and put them to bed. LXIII. [The...

...And a little silk handkerchief, To wipe his little nose. LXII. 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 broth without any bread, She whipped them all well and put them to bed. Lxm. [The following...

...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'...

...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...

...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...

...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...