My Mother Goose Adventures

I gave my picture book a shake, and then I stepped inside. Rip Van winkle did awake and starred at me and cried, "You're not my lovely bride!" I saw Humpty Dumpty sitting at a table, scrambling himself an egg. But with a cracked shell, he was quite unstable and rolled down the table's long leg, now slippery with yolk and nutmeg. Little Bo Peep was still looking for her sheep. So I thought I'd help her find them. I found one asleep under her long hem, and I mumbled a red-faced, "Ahem!' I went to meet the crooked man, who walked a cooked mile. But the trail on which I ran was full of crooked smiles. So I just laughed and sat awhile! Remember that old woman living in a shoe with all those hungry kids? Well, I took them, three hundred and two, and fed them plates of shrimp and ribs. Then I tucked them back into their cribs. I went to sea with Bobby Shaftoe, The boy with silver buckles on his knee. But, I got sick and went heave-ho! And I know that you'll agree, home again is the place for me! . 8/5/ 2015