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There came a big spider
Who sat down beside her,
And frightened Miss Muffett away.
[This represents a littie girl dressed in white with a large, straw hat on
her head, sitting on a hassock. She has a dish in her lap out of which
she is apparently eating something very good, iuhm to her horror a spider
is lowered at her side, and she runs off very much /tightened

LITTLE JACK. HORXEfL
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner,
Eating a Christmas pic;
He put in his thumb, and he took out a plum,
And said, " What a good boy am I I ”
[A hoy sits on a rug in a cornered screen with a large pie before hint,
which he -is very anxious to devour with fork and knife. When the last
two lines of the poem are read\ he pulls out the plum which he hold* Hp
in great delight ]
SIMPLE SIMON.
Simple Simon met: a Pieman,
Going to the Fair.
Says Simple Simon to the Pieman,
"Let me taste your ware.”
Says the Pieman to Simple Simon,
41 Show nie first your penny.”
Says Simple Simon to the Pieman,
“ Indeed T haven’t any.”

[Simple Simon is dressed in a very shabby costume rvhich has fust had
some red patches put on it, slouch hat, and. acts rather silly, while the
Pieman wears a high collar, red tie, a large white apron and on his arm
carries a good shed market basket in which he has pies. To illustrate the
first stanza of the poem they meet, and Simple Simon gases rather wist­
fully into the Pieman's basket, and when the last part of the poem is read,
Sim pie Simon puts both hands in- his pockets, and shakes his head NO,
signifying that he has no penny]