Little Bo-Peep

Little Bo-Peep
a girl in a traditional nursery rhyme. The first verse is:
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And doesn’t know where to find them;
Leave them alone, and they’ll come home
Bringing their tails behind them.In later verses the sheep lose their tails, but they are found ‘hung on a tree to dry’.

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