DAY 293

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Why do you cry, Will? Why do you cry?

THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN 从前有个老太太

There was an old woman,从前有个老太太，

Tossed up in a basket,坐在萝筐里摇摇摆摆，

Seventeen times as high as the moon. 17次飞得和月亮一样高。

And where she was going她要去哪我不知道，

I could't know but ask it,因为她手里还拿着扫把，

For in her hand she carried a broom.让我来问一问她：

"Old woman, old woman,“老奶奶，老奶奶，

Old woman, " said I, 老奶奶，

"Oh whither, oh whither, oh你飞那么高

whither so high?"要去哪儿？”

"To sweep the cob webs“我要飞到那天顶上，

off the sky"去把蜘蛛网扫下来。”

"May I go with you?"“能否把我一起带上？”

"Aye, by and by."“不急，不急，慢慢来。”

文选可分为两部分：
第一部分的韵脚为/it/，需重读basket/'ba:skit/和it/it/。
第二部分的韵脚为/ai/，需重读l/ai/、high/ha:/和by/bai/。
同时，文选中的三个old woman也需重读。