Let’s read together: Little Bo-Peep from Old Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes

Little Bo-Peep
Has lost her sheep,
And doesn’t know
Where to find them.
(or: And can’t tell where to find them;)

Leave them alone,
And they’ll come home,
Bringing their tails
Behind them.

Little Bo-Peep
Fell fast asleep,
And dreamed she heard.
Them bleating.

But when she awoke,
She found it a joke,
For they were still
A-fleeting.
(or: For still they all were fleeting).

Then up she took
her little crook,
Determined
for to find them.

She found them indeed,
But it made her heart bleed,
For they’d left all their tails
Behind them.

It happened one day,
As Bo-Peep did stray
Into a meadow hard by,
There she espied their tails
Side by side,
All hung on a tree to dry.

She heaved a sigh and
Wiped her eye,
And over the hillocks
Went rambling,
(or: And over the hillocks she raced)

And tried what she could,
As a shepherdess should,
To tack again each to
Its lambskin.
(or: That each tail should be properly placed).