| Amanda Minnie Douglas - American fiction - 1875 - 400 pages
...accompaniment he sang all the Mother Goose melodies that he could remember. At last he came to, — " There was an old woman who lived in a shoe : She had so many children she didn't know what to do; To some she gave broth without any bread," — and Harry stopped to catch his breath, for the trotting... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...of nineteen children, and hence we may easily trace the origin of . that famous classic: — "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she didn't know what to do." HISTORY AND FICTION. The archbishop of Canterbury once put the following question to Betterton, the... | |
| Addison Peale Russell - Conduct of life - 1875 - 416 pages
...mother of nineteen children, and hence we may easily trace the origin of that famous classic, " There was an old woman who lived in a shoe ; she had so many children she did n't know what to do." Now, as to the plays of the stage, we all know how some of them have gradually,... | |
| Lucy D Sale Barker - 1876 - 390 pages
...him to plunge in and bring out a fine fat fish for dinner ? THE OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE. HERE was an old woman who lived in a shoe; She had so many children she did not know what to do; She gave them some broth without any bread, And whipped them all soundly,... | |
| American periodicals - 1877 - 826 pages
...heavy handful, and we do not wonder that she poured out her feelings in the celebrated lines — There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she didn't know what to do. To entertain her young flock, Mrs. Goose was in the habit of telling little stories in prose and verse,... | |
| L. C. S. - Children's stories, English - 1877 - 48 pages
...naughty, she would make good use of the large birch rod which hung over the mantelpiece. CHAPTER II. " She gave them some broth without any bread ; She whipp'd them all soundly, and sent them to bed." THE next morning Betty put on her Sunday best gown and red cloak, and off she started, soon aftei breakfast,... | |
| Children's poetry - 1878 - 252 pages
...Man, and he went a Crooked Mile, He found a Crooked Sixpence against a Crooked Stile . . . .116 There was an Old Woman who lived in a Shoe, She had so many Children she didn't know what to do . . . . 132 Two Legs sat upon Three Legs, With One Leg in his Lap 149 MOTHER GOOSE'S MELODIES. A, B,... | |
| National Educational Association (U.S.) - Education - 1879 - 294 pages
...this is common ground ; something to build an acquaintance upon. The teacher repeats : — " ' There was an old woman Who lived in a shoe, She had so many children She didn't know what to do.' " I think I must be that old woman and you are the children, and this great big room is the shoe. "... | |
| M. Sullivan - 1879 - 322 pages
...good deal pulled down by the cares of her daily life ; for, like the old woman in the nursery-rhyme, she had so many children she didn't know what to do. She bore a strong family resemblance to the hare, but was much more common-looking, as might be expected.... | |
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