 | Ellen Pickering - 1835 - 1046 pages
...only plan is to treat such people as Little Bo- Peep treated his sheep, in the nursery rhyme : " Let them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them." Nor do I mean to condemn myself or my readers to such dull company. This is a very ugly chapter, and... | |
 | Central Society of Education - 1837 - 432 pages
...where to find them ; Leave them alone, and they will come home. And bring their tails behind them. n. Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep, And dreamt she heard...bleating ; But, when she awoke, she found it a joke, For still they all were fleeting. in. Then up she took her little crook, And forth she went to find them... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1841 - 468 pages
...never will again. XCVIII. LITTLE Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them : Let them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their...it a joke, For they still were all fleeting. Then up she took her little crook, Determin'd for to find them ; She found them indeed, but it made her... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Ballads, English - 1841 - 434 pages
...never will again. XCVIII. LITTLE Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them : Let them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their...it a joke, For they still were all fleeting. Then up she took her little crook, Determin'd for to find them ; She found them indeed, but it made her... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1841 - 476 pages
...never will again. XCVIII. LITTLE Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them : Let them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their...it a joke, For they still were all fleeting. Then up she took her little crook, Determin'd for to find them ; She found them indeed, but it made her... | |
 | Lucy (fict.name.) - 1842 - 222 pages
...while I sing ; " so she began, and sung all through little Bo-peep. " Little Bo-peep, Has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them ; Leave them alone, And they 're sure to come home, And bring their tails behind them " Little Bo-peep, Fell fast asleep, And... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Counting-out rhymes - 1843 - 332 pages
...before, And it never will again, again, And it never will again. CXXVI. LITTLE Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them : Leave them...it a joke. For they still were all fleeting. Then up she took her little crook, Determin'd for to find them ; She found them indeed, but it made her... | |
 | Ellen Pickering - Depression, Mental - 1844 - 136 pages
...Wait a little longer : he will be here presently, I dare say, and all be right. PEP. ( aside.) " Let them alone, and they'll come home, and bring their tails behind them." I hate people who say it will be right presently ; they always put me in a passion. MRs. RUF. Presently,... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1846 - 300 pages
...me a mouse; He carried fire in his tail, and burnt down my house: cxx. LITTLE Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them; Leave them...it a joke, For they still were all fleeting. Then up she took her little crook, Determin'd for to find them; She found them indeed, but it made her heart... | |
 | American periodicals - 1846 - 586 pages
...they 'II come home, And bring their tails behind them. •Little Bo PEEP fell fast asleep, And drcampt she heard them bleating: But when she awoke, she found it a joke, For still they were all fleeting. 'Then up she took her little crook, DeterminM for to find them ; She... | |
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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. 
