The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe; Or, There's No Place Like Home

CHAPTER I.

JOE'S GRAND DISCOVERY.

Hal sat trotting Dot on his knee,--poor little weazen-faced Dot, who was just getting over the dregs of the measles, and cross accordingly. By way of accompaniment he sang all the Mother Goose melodies that he could remember. At last he came to,--

"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe: She had so many children she didn�...