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Little Bo-Beep.

ITTLE Bo-peep has lost her sheep,
And does not know where to find them :
Leave them alone and they will come home,
And bring their tails behind them.

But what shall she do? the lambs are gone too,
And, oh dear me! she nowheres can spy them.
So she left them alone and the lambs all came home ;
But their tails, alas! some one did fry them.

~Gnrwansn

A Man of Words.

MAN of words, but not of deeds,

Once had a garden full of weeds ;
And when the weeds began to grow
He grumbled, but forgot to hoe.
So soon they spread o’er bed and walk,
Yet he did nothing else but talk.
The tender trees he meant to stake,
But left them for the winds to break.
A broken gap the pigs strayed through,
And did the havoc pigs can do.
One year this man of words, not deeds,
Forgot till June to sow his seeds ;
Yet did he talk enough, I trow,
If words were deeds, to make them grow.
One day he felt extremely ill,
Yet took not either draught or pill.
A sudden pain had made him start,
A kind of spasm in the heart ;
But as to this he took no heed,
He soon was dead—was dead indeed !