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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.
