80 AUNT LOUISA’S BOOK

     
  
 
   
  

   
  

at As I went over the water,
: ia _ The water went over me.
Koh BE Dy { saw two little blackbirds sitting
Ms die SFU Ei : ‘ _ The one called me a rascal,
MG xy )- : The other called me a thief;

  

I took up my little black stick,
And knocked out all their teeth.

   

 

A PIE sate on a pear-tree,

A pie sate on a pear-tree,

_A pie sate on a pear-tree,
Heigh O, heigh O, heigh O!

Once so merrily hopp’d she,

Twice so merrily hopp’d she,

Thrice so merrily hopp’d she,
Heigh O, heigh O, heigh O!

RowLrty Pow ey, pudding

and pie, Mary had a pretty bird,
Kissed the girls and made Feathers bright and yellow,

them cry; Slender legs—upon my word
When the girls begin to cry, He was a pretty fellow.

Rowley Powley runs away. The sweetest notes he always sung,

Which much delighted Mary ;
And near the cage she’d ever sit
Some little mice sat in a barn to spin; To hear her own canary.
her head in;

“ Shall I come in, and cut
your threads off?” |

“Oh, no, kind sir! you
will snap our heads |
off >?”