And pretty maids all in a row.




MISTRESS MARY


Once upon a time there was a little girl named Mary.

She had no brothers and sisters, but she had a dear, good father and
mother.

Mary always went to school with her little friends.

She played with them after school and on Saturdays.

One Saturday in winter all the children went coasting down the long
hill near the school-house.

Mary took her new red sled and went with them.

Oh, it was such fun to coast down that long hill!

The children ran and laughed and shouted all the way.

They had not been coasting long when Mary fell off her sled right into
a snow bank.

That was fun, too, and Mary didn't care one bit.