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Title: Mother Hubbard Picture Book
Mother Hubbard, The Three Bears, & The Absurd A, B, C.

Author: Walter Crane

Release Date: June 7, 2008 [EBook #25714]

Language: English

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MOTHER HUBBARD'S PICTURE BOOK

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Walter Crane's Picture Books
Vol. II.

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Her neck did she CRANE,
As she looked up the LANE
To see the Three Bears pass by.
They all went in, oddly,
At the head of the Bodley
An A.B.C. for to buy.

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She went rather nearer
To get a good look,
And when she came back
He had run through her book!

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MOTHER HUBBARD
HER PICTURE BOOK

Containing:
MOTHER HUBBARD,
THE THREE BEARS, &
THE ABSURD A.B.C.

With the Original Coloured Pictures, an
Illustrated Preface & Odds & End Papers,
never before printed.

By WALTER CRANE

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John Lane.
The Bodley Head.
London & New York.

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PREFACE

MOTHER HUBBARD, as we all know, had a cupboard which she found bare on
one occasion.

Well, this is Mother Hubbard's Picture Book, and it's rather bearish,
too, for there are no less than THREE BEARS therein.

But you must not suppose that the book is altogether bear, because there
are other things in it.

There's Apple pie, for instance to my certain knowledge, and "victuals
and drink" of sorts, as well--but I must not let the cat out of the bag
(or the cupboard) all at once--besides Mother Hubbard's clever dog is
still feeding it, for his day (in spite of muzzles) is not over yet, and
he is up to all his old tricks.

When you are t