In the spring, we would go a-maying out in the old pasture, and O, such great handfuls of the sweet mayflower as we used to bring home! Later on, we would gather great bunches of sweet-smelling herbs that grew wild out there, and carry them home to hang up in the shed-chamber and dry.
If one of my schoolmates had been unkind to me, I would go out into the old pasture, and there I would plan out for myself a lovely future wherein I should be very rich and very good to the poor. And my unkind schoolmate would be one of the humble receivers of my gifts, and so it would come about that before I got through building air-castles I would actually feel sorry for the poor schoolmate who had ill-used me. And then home I would go, singing and skipping!
Percia V. White.
“CO’ BOSS!! CO’ BOSS!”
Little Mother Hubbard.
1. Lit-tle Mo-ther Hub-bard sat
In the park at play, With her gown and point-ed hat All of so-ber
gray. And she looked so wondrous wise That I scarce be-lieved my eyes;