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The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland is about Mr. Headland and his friend Mrs. Yin as they investigate Mother Goose's beloved nursery rhymes. Excerpt: "It is a mistake to suppose that any one nation or people has the exclusive right to Mother Goose. She is an omnipresent old lady. She is Asiatic as well as European or American. Wherever there are mothers, grandmothers, and nurses there are Mother Gooses,—or; shall we say, Mother Geese—for I am at a loss as to how to pluralize this old dame. She is in India, whence I have rhymes from her, of which the following is a sample: Heh, my baby! Ho, my baby! See the wild, ripe plum…"
© 2019 Good Press (Ebook): 4057664590572
Release date
Ebook: November 29, 2019
Classics
The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland is about Mr. Headland and his friend Mrs. Yin as they investigate Mother Goose's beloved nursery rhymes. Excerpt: "It is a mistake to suppose that any one nation or people has the exclusive right to Mother Goose. She is an omnipresent old lady. She is Asiatic as well as European or American. Wherever there are mothers, grandmothers, and nurses there are Mother Gooses,—or; shall we say, Mother Geese—for I am at a loss as to how to pluralize this old dame. She is in India, whence I have rhymes from her, of which the following is a sample: Heh, my baby! Ho, my baby! See the wild, ripe plum…"
© 2019 Good Press (Ebook): 4057664590572
Release date
Ebook: November 29, 2019
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