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    Sing a Song of Sixpence
    Sing a Song of Sixpence
    Sing a Song of Sixpence
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    Sing a Song of Sixpence

    By Mary Holdsworth

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Sing a Song of Sixpence - Mary Holdsworth

      SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license.

      Title: Sing a Song of Sixpence

      Author: Mary Holdsworth

      Release Date: July 07, 2012 [EBook #40154]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: UTF-8

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE ***

      Produced by Al Haines.

      Cover

      [Transcriber's note: the illustrations in this book were originally black and white line drawings. They appear to have been colorized by a previous owner of the book.]

      Nellie

      SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE.

      BY

      MARY HOLDSWORTH.

      EDINBURGH AND LONDON:

      OLIPHANT, ANDERSON, & FERRIER.

      1892

      BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

      Uniform in Pretty Cloth Binding.

      SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE. MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY. WHERE THE SKY FALLS. ADVENTURES OF KING CLO. A PRINCESS IN DISGUISE. A STRANGER IN THE TEA.

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      Sing a Song of Sixpence.

      A brand new sixpence fresh from the Mint! How it sparkled and glittered in the dancing sunlight! Such a treasure for a small girl to possess! But then, on the other hand, what a heavy responsibility!

      Nellie

      All day long it had been burning a hole in her pocket, and as for learning lessons, not an idea would enter her head. Everything went in at one ear and out of the other, as Miss Primmer sternly remarked when Nellie could not say her poetry. But, indeed, Nellie did try hard to learn her lessons; she squeezed her eyes together as tightly as possible, though how shutting her eyes was to prevent the lessons from coming out of her ears was not very clear. "But I must learn them now, she sighed, or Miss Primmer will keep me in to-morrow, and I shan't be able to go out with Nursie and Reggie to spend my sixpence. Oh dear! I wish I could learn my poetry and keep it in, I guess I'd better get a bit of cotton wool to put in my ears and then it can't come out. There, now!

      "'Mary had a little lamb,

      Its fleece was white as snow,

      And everywhere that Mary went

      The lamb was sure to go.'

      "That's lovely! I wish I'd a lamb. I think I'll buy one with my sixpence. Won't it be nice? And I can keep it in the garden, and

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