Monday's child is fair of face/ Tuesday's child is full of grace/ Wednesday's child is full of woe/ Thursday's child has far to go... Child Classics - Page 59by Georgia Alexander, Grace Alexander - 1909Full view - About this book
| Benjamin Leopold Farjeon - 1888 - 274 pages
...? Then we could settle it?" "Settle what, 'Melia Jane?" " Why, don't you know ? " she replied. " ' Monday's child is fair of face. Tuesday's child is full of grace. Wednesday's child is loving and giving. Thursday's child works hard for a living. Friday's child is full of woe. Saturday's... | |
| Herbert Greenhough Smith - England - 1913 - 892 pages
...imagination invests the latest arrival with certain qualities according to the day on which it arrives : — Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is...child that is born on Christmas Day Is fair and wise and good and gay. When a baby smiles in its sleep, we are told by those who know most about babies... | |
| American literature - 1891 - 806 pages
...idyls is named " Friday's Child," the writer of which, " Frances," recalls this bit of folk-verse: Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace ; Wednesday's child is loving and giving, Thursday's child works hard for a living : Friday'! child is full of woe, Saturday's... | |
| Folk-songs, English - 1892 - 588 pages
...chets, A child's future, etc., is said to be determined by the day of the week on which it is born — Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace ; Wednesday's child is full of wo, And Thursday's child has far to go. Friday's child is loving and giving, And Saturday's child works... | |
| Frances - 1893 - 190 pages
...like other children. Friday had been used to hearing the rhyme all the days of his short life — " Monday's child is fair of face; Tuesday's child is full of grace; Wednesday's child is loving and giving; Thursday's child works hard for his living; Friday's child is full of woe; Saturday's... | |
| California. State Board of Education - Readers - 1894 - 106 pages
...mama. I am good to papa. Mama wants to see you. Polly wants you to see her doll. Read to the pupils : Monday's child is fair of face ; Tuesday's child is full of grace ; Wednesday's child is merry and glad ; Thursday's child is sour and sad ; Friday's child is loving and giving ; Saturday's... | |
| Charles Dickens - English literature - 1887 - 588 pages
...but to Tavistock in particular. Monday's child is fair of face ; Tuesday's child is full of Brace ; Wednesday's child is full of woe ; Thursday's child...loving and giving ; Saturday's child works hard for a living ; But a child that is born on a Christmas Day Is fair, and wise, and merry, and gay. Sunday... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1896 - 570 pages
...For the days of the week Southern children often repeat this well-known jingle regarding birthdays : Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is...Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child must work for its living; But the child that is born on the Sabbath day Is blithe and bonny, and good... | |
| Maud C. Cooke - Etiquette - 1896 - 542 pages
...after years as a record of those marvelously interesting days of babyhood. Some Birthday Superstitions. Monday's child is fair of face. Tuesday's child is full of grace. Wednesday's child is born for woe. Thursday's child has far to go. Friday's child is loving and giving. Saturday's child... | |
| Maud C. Cooke - Etiquette - 1896 - 540 pages
...after years as a record of those marvelously interesting days of babyhood. Some Birthday Superstitions. Monday's child is fair of face. Tuesday's child is full of grace. Wednesday's child is born for woe. Thursday's child has far to go. Friday's child is loving and giving. Saturday's child... | |
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