Censored Mother Goose

Censored Mother GooseWe enjoy browsing in secondhand bookstores on off hours and we discovered a little volume the other afternoon that considerably brightened our day. It was a thirty-year-old book of Mother Goose rhymes and the only special thing about it was that several words in each verse had been deleted. The book was dedicated to The Censors, who have taught us to read naughty meanings into harmless words, and we were very amused by the way these innocent rhymes from the nursery could be...