Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17)

Volume 1 — THE OLD WOMAN IN THE BASKET

Reading edition

There was an old woman tossed up in a basket, Nineteen times as high as the moon; Where she was going I couldn’t but ask it For in her hand she carried a broom.

“Old woman, old woman, old woman, quoth I, O whither, O whither, O whither so high?” “To brush the cobwebs off the sky!” “Shall I go with thee?” “Aye, by-and-by.”

Illustration from Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk

From a Drawing by Arthur Rackham

“Where she was going I couldn’t but ask it, For in her hand she carried a broom.”