"The Nursery Chair" and a Gingerbread & lemonade stand

Two poems in a children's book from 1880.  In the first poem, the little girl is "plucking the raisins so rich" from her [Queen Cakes?] "cake that is flavoured with spice."  In the second poem - the children asked “If you please, Mrs. Grumpy, we’d like lemonade, and sweet sugar candy with almonds inlaid.”

"The Nursery Chair"

Edith sits up in her chair so high,

How busy she looks with her downbent eye.

What is she doing?  Can you not guess?

With her little bare feet, and her little night-dress.

She is plucking the raisins so rich and so nice,

From out of her cake that is flavoured with spice.

"The Old Woman's Stall"

The old woman sold: apples, lollipops, sweet currant cakes, toffee with almonds, lemonade, gingerbread snap.  The children asked “If you please, Mrs. Grumpy, we’d like lemonade, and sweet sugar candy with almonds inlaid.”

 Poems for children published in London, 1880.


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