 | Caroline Howard Gilman - Autographs - 1838 - 456 pages
...contrast to Philadelphia. Instead of a bride in her wedding garments, New-York looks more like " The old woman who lived in a shoe, " Who Had so many children she didn't know what to do." The shoe of New- York, however, is of Indiarubber, and no one can visit the suburbs without feeling... | |
 | Grace Greenwood - Animals - 1851 - 146 pages
...she might adopt him for charity's sake. But Biddy Avas already like the celehrated " Old woman that lived in a shoe, Who had so many children she didn't know what to do." With thirteen little ones of her own, and living in a small and rather an inconvenient coop, it was... | |
 | Grace Greenwood - Animals - 1851 - 128 pages
...she might adopt him for charity's sake. But Biddy was already like the celebrated " Old woman that lived in a shoe, Who had so many children she didn't know what to do." With thirteen little ones of her own, and living in a small and rather an inconvenient coop, it was... | |
 | Sara Jane Lippincott - 1853 - 130 pages
...adopt him for charity's sake. But Biddy was already like the celebrated " Old woman that lived in her shoe, Who had so many children she didn't know what to do." With thirteen little ones of her own, and living in a small and rather an inconvenient coop, it was... | |
 | Counting-out rhymes - 1871 - 40 pages
...custos tarn parvulus absit ? En, gregis oblitus sub foeno dormit opaco. VETULA CALCEOCOLA. THERE was an old woman who lived in a shoe, Who had so many children she did n't know what to do; She gave them some broth without any bread, And whipt them all soundly and... | |
 | Catholic literature - 1875 - 400 pages
...rosy, that you could not help immediately picturing her to yourself, as the mistress of the well-known "shoe," who " had so many children she didn't know what to do." " Why, Hiram !" piped her treble voice, as little as herself, but quite as round and clear in every... | |
 | Julie P. Smith - 1876 - 468 pages
...in the half-opened "upper drawer," where she was supposed to represent the old woman living in her shoe, who had so many children she didn't know what to do. But before she had got so far as to whip them all soundly, the whole thing tilted forward, like Mrs.... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - Magic, Gypsy - 1891 - 302 pages
...we would add our mite by remarking as a curious confirmation of this theory, that — There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, Who had so many children she didn't know what to do. This passes now for a mere nursery-rhyme ; but doubtless there are those who will trace it back to... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - Fortune-telling - 1891 - 298 pages
...we would add our mite by remarking as a curious confirmation of this theory, that — There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, Who had so many children she didn't know what to do. This passes now for a mere nursery-rhyme ; but doubtless there are those who will trace it back to... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1891 - 622 pages
...looked like a stocking stuffed into the top. On a big sign in front was written the story : There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, Who had so many children, she did n't know what to do; VOL. XVIII.— 24. So she gave them some broth, without any bread, And spanked... | |
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We all remember the old nursery rhyme about the old woman who lived in a shoe, who had so many children she didn't know what to do. 
