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Wed, 20 May 2009
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The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, here, on page Hey Diddle Diddle
HEY DIDDLE
DIDDLE "Queen Pepper has given me permission to
use the pictures of the Googlenok's from Peppercorn
Green for pictures, I said a big thank you from all
of us"
THE OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN
A SHOE Chapter One
Everybody knows that once upon a time there was an
Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, and that she had so
many children she didn't know what to do. And they
know that she gave the children some broth without
any bread, and whipped them all soundly and sent
them to bed. And that's all that most people
know, because it's all that the song tells about
them. But a little bird came one morning
and told me a great deal more. He told me how they
came to live in the shoe, and how the children
turned the Old Woman's hair gray with all the
tricks they were up to - in fact, he told me
about everything. The first
thing you need to know is that there were twenty -
three children. The eldest was
called Anne and the second Benjy and the
third Chalotte and the fourth Dan and the fifth
Eliza and so on through all the letters of the
alphabet, (except Q and X and Y, becaus the Old
Woman could think of no names that began with those
letters). The name of the
youngest was Zedekiah, but he was always called Zed
for short. And there was just
one sad
thing about Zed, and that was that he was
lame, and could not run fast, because one leg
was shorter than the
other. Before
they lived in the shoe, the Old Woman and the Old
Woman's husband and the twenty three children all
lived together in a little house near a
wood. It was a cosy
little house with a big garden. There were a few
flowers near the house, but most of the garden was
filled with vegetables which they used to
take to market to sell, and they grew the
best vegetables in all the
countryside.
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