LITTLE BO-PEEP

Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep,

And can't tell where to find them; Leave them alone, and they'll 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 still they all were 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.

BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP

Baa, baa, black Sheep, have you any wool? Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full:

One for my master, one for my dame,

And one for the little boy that lives in the lane.

THE LITTLE MAN

There was once a little boy.

He was only five years old.

He thought he was a very big boy.

One day he said, "I am not little any more. I am almost as big as my papa.

See, I can wear my papa's hat.” Then he put on his papa's hat.

He took his papa's cane and he went to walk. He did not care if the hat did come down

to his ears.

He did not care if the cane was almost as tall as he.

He was having a fine time.

All the people laughed at the queer little

man.

They said, "Oh, Hat! what are you thinking about?

Oh, Cane! where are you going with that

little boy?"

-From the German

THE BREAKFAST THAT FLEW AWAY It had been snowing fast.

The wind was very cold.

The poor little snowbirds could find nothing

to eat.

Some of them were almost frozen.

Pussy saw five little birds lying on the snow in the yard.

Their wings were so stiff they could not fly.
They looked as if they were dead.
Pussy ran out and brought the birds into

the kitchen.

She laid them down by the stove.

“What a good breakfast I shall have,” she thought.

Pussy was not very hungry just then, so she lay down under the stove and went to sleep. The kitchen was very warm.

The little birds soon began to move.

They were not dead at all.

They were only very stiff.