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Title: Nine Little Goslings

Author: Susan Coolidge

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Language: English

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NINE LITTLE GOSLINGS.

by

SUSAN COOLIDGE,

Author of "The New Year's Bargain," "Mischief's Thanksgiving," "What
Katy Did," "What Katy Did at School."

With Illustrations.

CURLY LOCKS.
GOOSEY, GOOSEY GANDER.
LITTLE BO-PEEP.
MISTRESS MARY.
LADY BIRD.
ONE, TWO, BUCKLE MY SHOE.
RIDE A COCK-HORSE.
LADY QUEEN ANNE.
UP, UP, UP, AND DOWN, DOWN, DOWN-Y.

[Illustration]

Boston:
Roberts Brothers.
1893.

Copyright, 1875.
By Roberts Brothers.

[Illustration]

University Press . John Wilson & Son,
Cambridge.

_When nursery lamps are veiled, and nurse is singing
In accents low,
Timing her music to the cradle's swinging,
Now fast, now slow,--_

_Singing of Baby Bunting, soft and furry
In rabbit cloak,
Or rock-a-byed amid the toss and flurry
Of wind-swept oak;_

_Of Boy-Blue sleeping with his horn beside him,
Of my son John,
Who went to bed (let all good boys deride him)
With stockings on;_

_Of sweet Bo-Peep following her lambkins straying;
Of Dames in shoes;
Of cows, considerate, 'mid the Piper's playing,
Which tune to choose;_

_Of Gotham's wise men bowling o'er the