Still no connection so one from the archive.
Little Bo Peep illustrated by Walter Crane 1885 [Wikipedia]
Well now, boys and girls, are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.
Once upon a time, there was a little English shepherdess who lost all her sheep.
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep
And doesn’t know where to find them.
Leave them alone and they’ll come home,
Bringing their tails behind them.
Little Bo Peep fell fast asleep
And dreamt she heard them bleating,
But when she awoke, she found it a joke,
For they were all still fleeting.
Then up she took her little crook
Determined for to find them.
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
For they left their tails behind them.
It happened one day, as Bo Peep did stray
Into a meadow hard by,
There she espied their tails side by side
All hung on a tree to dry.
She heaved a sigh, and…
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Now that would have been perfect for my Pixel Prose challenge Sarah, brilliant! X
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Thank you, my friend!
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No wonder I was taught only the first four lines as a child!
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I think that might have been the same for most of us. I was quite surprised when I read the rest of it for this post!
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