Little Mother Goose

by Anonymous

THE NIMBLE PENNIES.

First, find two pennies, one small, one large (or, if a big old-fashioned copper cent is not to be found in papa’s pocket, a two-cent piece, or a silver quarter, will do as well). Then take slate, or paper, and pencil, and draw a small circle and a large circle, as in the first and second pictures. To these lapping circles, add eye, nose, mouth, ears, legs, feet, and last of all a fine bushy tail—and, behold! the nimble pennies have changed to a gay little Christmas “nut-cracker”—which everybody knows is one of the squirrel’s nicknames.

I do have such trouble and care

With my dolly’s right shoe!

The string gets in forty hard knots—

Just as both of mine do—

I am sorry for mamas, aren’t you?

P. S. C.