Monday, 2 February 2015

Birthday Book Part 2: Creepy nursery rhyme!

A couple of weeks ago I shared the sweet little Shakespeare Birthday Book.

The original owner had lovely old-timey handwriting:

























But at some point, a kid got hold of it! They tried to copy the original handwriting and drew boats:

























And also wrote disturbing rhymes:

'Old Paddy Usmond is no good
Chop her up for firewood
If she is no good for that
Give her to the ugly cat'

I looked it up, it turns out there's different variations of this old nursery rhyme floating about - but they're all creepy! They just don't write children's rhymes like they used to eh?!

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