27 NOVEMBER 1909, Page 16

ANIMALS IN NURSERY RHYMES.

[TO TIM EDITOR OF TIM " EIFECTMOR."]

SIE,—No hare in nursery rhymes ! Has the writer of the article in your last issue forgotten—

"Once upon a time, no matter when,

When Ducks were Geese and Geese were men, There was a little Hare who lived in there; And when the pasture began to grow bare

He crept and he crept and he crept up there " P