Child Songs of Cheer

<h2><SPAN name="WHEN_BETTIE_AND_ANNE_WENT_WALKING" id="WHEN_BETTIE_AND_ANNE_WENT_WALKING"></SPAN>WHEN BETTIE AND ANNE WENT WALKING</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i4">When they took their dollies walking,<br/></span> <span class="i4">They were both so busy talking,<br/></span> <span class="i0">(They had not met for half an hour and so had much to say)<br/></span> <span class="i4">That they heedlessly kept going<br/></span> <span class="i4">Down the shady streets, not knowing,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Till they wanted to come back again, they could not find the way!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i4">In their fright they felt forlorner<br/></span> <span class="i4">Every time they turned a corner,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And they wailed to one another, "Oh, whatever shall we do?<br/></span> <span class="i4">A big bear might come to bite us,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Or a dreadful dog to fight us,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Or the wicked gipsies get us! <i>Oh, boo-hoo! Boo-hoo! Boo-hoo!</i>"<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</SPAN></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i4">But this story, though a sad one,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Has an end that's not a bad one,<br/></span> <span class="i0">For at last somebody found them as they bade the world good-by;<br/></span> <span class="i4">They took their dollies home again,<br/></span> <span class="i4">And vowed they'd never roam again,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And their mothers hugged and kissed them, saying, "There, my dears, don't cry!"<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />