The Selfish Hen single work   poetry   children's   "Mary had a little hen"
Issue Details: First known date: 1920... 1920 The Selfish Hen
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The selfish hen refuses to give up her eggs to Mary. Mary threatens to take the hen to the grocer's.

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    y separately published work icon Cole's Happy Time Picture and Nursery Rhyme Book Lillian M. Pyke , Percy Leason (illustrator), Melbourne : E. W. Cole , 1920 Z846345 1920 selected work poetry children's A collection of original verse, some of which revisit well-known stories and rhymes and others that introduce Australian content, including a set of limericks about Victorian places. This collection has some specific leanings to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, both in the content of individual rhymes and in Leason's delightful illustrations. Cole's Happy Time Picture and Nursery Rhyme Book : A Jolly Book for Little Australians full of Bright Pictures Melbourne : E. W. Cole , 1920 pg. 20
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