Do you remember learning the following Beatrice Potter rhymes at school – probably in first class?
But since I went to school in Donegal in the Republic of Ireland, I probably learned them under the watchful eye of Miss Mac Donnagh in Low or High Infants.
I gave my poor long suffering husband the first lines of the following poems and after a few seconds the rest of the words were rolling off his tongue.
Who says rote learning didn’t work?
Beatrice Potter
Three blind mice
Three blind mice, three blind mice,
See how they run!
They all run after the farmer’s wife,
And she cut off their tails with a carving knife, –
—do you remember the last line?
Beatrix Potter
This pig went to market
THIS pig went to market;
This pig stayed at home;
This pig had a bit of meat;
And this pig had none;
This little pig cried
Wee! wee! wee!
I can’t find my way home. – –
– In Ireland we learned a different ending. Do you remember it?
Beatrix Potter
Goosey, Goosey, Gander
GOOSEY, goosey, gander,
Whither will you wander?
Upstairs and downstairs,
And in my lady’s chamber!
Hope these short poems bring back happy memories of your schooldays
Me! I’m trying to forget mine and slap happy Miss M
Gemma Hill Writeyou Writeme 
I remember those poems so well. Thank you
Learned them at school -never knew they were penned by Beatrice Potter
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