"A Merry Christmas to Mrs. Brown and all the little Browns, from
Maggie's and Tommy's schoolmates."
"Look, Mamma!" said little Maggie Brown. "What is that wagon stopping
here for, and what is that funny thing in it?"
Mrs. Brown came to the window just as Mr. Home took the shoe out of the
wagon.
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"Why, it is a big shoe," laughed Mrs. Brown. "I guess it is for me to
keep you all in."
Tommy, and Katie, and Mary, and Alice, all ran to see.
Oh, they were so happy when the shoe was brought in and they found it
was something for them!
Mrs. Brown was happy, too, to think that her children would have such a
merry Christmas.
She told Mr. Horne to wish all the children who sent the shoe a very,
very happy Christmas.
"And tell them," she said, "to come and see 'the Old Woman in the Shoe'
and her children!"
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey;
There came a big spider
And sat down beside her,
And frightened Miss Muffet away.