Dear, Dear! What Can the Matter Be?
Dear, Dear! What Can the Matter Be?
Nursery Rhyme
Dear, dear! what can the matter be?
Two old women got up in an apple-tree;
One came down, and the other stayed till Saturday.
Comments
The first version of the rhyme and the illustration can be found in The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright. The second version of the rhyme can be found in A History of Nursery Rhymes (1899) by Percy B. Green.
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