 | Mary Anne Hearne - Devotional literature, English - 1871 - 288 pages
...242 126. — OVERHEARD SENTENCES . . . 245 LIFE SKETCHES, AND ECHOES FROM THE VALLEY. $. JjIouseM o " There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she didn't know what to do." MANY people feel a pity for those women who are illustrations of that old rhyme. And there are plenty... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1872 - 758 pages
...the mother of twenty-one children, and in that fact we may find the origin of the famous classic : " There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children that she did'nt know what to do." Twenty-one years elapsed from the establishment of a newspaper in... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1914 - 852 pages
...buns ! If ye have no daughters, Give them to your sons. One a penny, two a penny, Hot-cross buns ! There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she did n't know what to do ; She gave them some broth without any bread, She whipped them all round, and... | |
 | Amanda Minnie Douglas - 1874 - 392 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... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1874 - 588 pages
...dancing a jig; Ride to the market to buy a fat hog, Home again, home again, jiggety-jog. • DXXIX. THERE was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she didn't know what to do ; She gave them some broth without any bread, She whipped them all well and put them to bed. DXXX.... | |
 | Charles Granville Gepp - 1874 - 240 pages
...to-becovered by the damp ground. Observe the use of " mille," for an indefinite number. EXERCISE XXXV. There was an old woman who lived in a shoe ; She had so many children she didn't know what to do : She gave them some broth without any bread, Then whipp'd them all soundly, and sent them to bed.... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 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 didn't know what to do." HISTORY AND FICTION. The archbishop of Canterbury once put the following question to Betterton, the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - Conduct of life - 1875 - 416 pages
...the 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,... | |
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There was an old woman who lived In a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do. 
