Excerpt from The Lost Legends of the Nursery Songs

"I have a little sister, they call her Bo-peep,
She wades through the waters, deep, deep,
She climbs through the heavens, high, high:
Poor little sister, - she has but one eye."

In a cottage on the borders of a wood there lived two children, a boy and a girl, with their father, the Wizard of the Wold. He was the descendant of a long race of wizards, and he looked hardly like a human being, with his dark eyebrows and black fierce eyes and long sharp teeth. The children, however, were not so strange looking, for their mother had been an ordinary woman, who married the wizard because he promised to revenge her upon some people who had done her wrong. But she did not live long, although long enough to repent of her marriage with so wild and uncanny a being.

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