The children could not work because they liked to watch him.
So Mary put him out and shut the door.
But Fleecy nibbled some sweet clover and waited for Mary.
When the children came out he trotted home with them.
After that day Fleecy often went to school with the children.
But he never went in again.
I think he liked clover better than books.
Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep,
And can't tell where to find them;
Leave them alone, and they'll come home,
And bring their tails behind them.
Little Bo-peep fell fast asleep,
And dreamed she heard them bleating;
But when she awoke she found it a joke,
For they were still a-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'd left their tails behind them.