id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 17282 Crane, Walter An Alphabet of Old Friends .txt text/plain 983 129 102 An alphabet of old friends originally published 1874; AN ALPHABET OF OLD FRIENDS "Wife, bring me my old bent bow, For our old sow is in a swoon." _Cock._ (_Con spirito._) Sell your eggs and buy shoes! The mouse ran up the clock. And down will come baby and cradle and all. King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he. Let them alone and they'll come home, Once I saw a little bird, So I cried, "Little bird, Pease-pudding in the pot, nine days old. To see an old woman get up on her horse; And stole a marrow-bone. I went to Taffy's house, I went to Taffy's house, I took the marrow-bone, "Where are you going, my pretty maid?" "I'm going a milking, sir," she said. "Say will you marry me, my pretty maid?" "Then, I won't marry you, my pretty maid!" ./cache/17282.txt ./txt/17282.txt