Then she took a long crook and stood in the middle of the floor.
As she called the names of the children they stood in a line behind her.
Then they began to march and sing:
"Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep,
And can't tell where to find them;
Let them alone, and they'll come home,
And bring their tails behind them."
The children marched around the room, and through the hall into the dining-room.
There they saw a big green curtain, and there they found the sheep.
"She found them, indeed, but it made her heart bleed, For they'd left their tails behind them."
Sure enough! There was a sheep on the curtain, but it had no tail.
There were some tails in a box on the table.
Bo-peep's mother gave one of them to each of the children.