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Just as Millet's Shepherdess differs altogether from the little Bopeep of the nursery tale, so this peasant girl is not at all like the pretty milkmaids who carry milking-stools and shining pails through the pages of the picture books. Millet had no patience with such pictures.
There was a sense of weakness in following them by saying that she had just met her husband by appointment. "Then you would advise me not to communicate with him?" she observed. "I shall never advise ye again. You are your own mistress do as you like. But my opinion is that if you don't live with him, you had better live without him, and not go shilly-shallying and playing bopeep.
The only way to retain the Border States was by showing that we had the will and the power to do without them. The little Bopeep policy of "Let them alone, and they'll all come home Wagging their tails behind them"
The only way to retain the Border States was by showing that we had the will and the power to do without them. The little Bopeep policy of "Let them alone, and they'll all come home Wagging their tails behind them"
The clouds on which the saints repose are opaque and solid; cherubs in countless multitudes, a swarm of merry children, crawl about upon these feather-beds of vapour, creep between the legs of the apostles, and play at bopeep behind their shoulders. There is no propriety in their appearance there. They take no interest in the beatific vision.
"Little Bopeep, she lost her sheep, And couldn't tell where to find him; She found him, indeed, but it made her heart bleed For he left his tail behind him." "Why, then, doctor, it was all sham," exclaimed I. "Yes; and the doctor's come on a fool's errand "`Goosey, Goosey Gander, Whither dost thou wander? Upstairs and downstairs, And in a lady's chamber."
THE WOMEN: Little father! Little father! THE BABES AND SUCKLINGS: Clap clap hands till Poldy comes home, Cakes in his pocket for Leo alone. Bopeep! U. p: up. Splendid! Wriggle it, girls! JIMMY HENRY: The Court of Conscience is now open. His Most Catholic Majesty will now administer open air justice. Free medical and legal advice, solution of doubles and other problems. All cordially invited.
In a little while they came to where Mother Goose lived, and the dear old lady herself was out in front of her house, looking up and down the woodland path, anxious like. "What is the matter?" asked Uncle Wiggily. "Are you looking for some of your lost ones Little Bopeep or Tommy Tucker, who sings for his supper?" "Well, no, not exactly," answered Mother Goose.
There was a charming mixture of all that is needed to make a garden perfect grass, velvety lawn rather; water, for a little brook ran tinkling in and out, playing bopeep among the bushes; trees, of course, and flowers, of course, flowers of every shade and shape.
At length, as I leaned with my elbow on the bench one day, it ran up my clothes, and along my sleeve, and round and round the paper which held my dinner, while I kept the latter close, and dodged and played at bopeep with it; and when at last I held still a piece of cheese between my thumb and finger, it came and nibbled it, sitting in my hand, and afterward cleaned its face and paws, like a fly, and walked away.
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