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Second Reader.
Lesson XXXI.
  • wood′en
  • shoe
  • mist′y
  • hĕr′ring
  • ruf′fled
  • where ev′er
  • twink′ling
  • foam
  • fish′er men
  • dreamed
  • skies
  • trun′dle-bed

'Twas means it was. They'd means they did.


Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe,—
Sailed on a river of misty light
Into a sea of dew.
"Where are you going, and what do you wish?"
The old moon asked the three.
"We have come to hunt for the herring-fish
That live in this beautiful sea;
Nets of silver and gold have we,"
    Said Wynken,
    Blynken,
    And Nod.

The old moon laughed and sang a song
As they rocked in the wooden shoe;

From "A Little Book of Western Verse." Copyright 1889 by Eugene Field, and published by Chas. Scribner's Sons.