Extraordinary nursery rhymes and tales, new yet old, tr. into comic verse, by one who was once a child himself |
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... Grown up is sure to please him . Fresh morals freely are dispensed , So sweet , each cries Give me some ! ' Whilst errors have been swept away With a remorseless besom ! NURSERY RHYMES AND TALES . L Kitty Fisher found the.
... Grown up is sure to please him . Fresh morals freely are dispensed , So sweet , each cries Give me some ! ' Whilst errors have been swept away With a remorseless besom ! NURSERY RHYMES AND TALES . L Kitty Fisher found the.
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... Grown quite confused . First he kissed this one , Then he kissed that ; Really he scarce knows What he is at . No decision made he , And as time ran , King Arthur hit on This clever plan ; — All the sweet maidens Form a large ring , Tom ...
... Grown quite confused . First he kissed this one , Then he kissed that ; Really he scarce knows What he is at . No decision made he , And as time ran , King Arthur hit on This clever plan ; — All the sweet maidens Form a large ring , Tom ...
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... growing feeble ( the Chronicler says ) , Was knocked down by a horse and run o'er by the chaise . So this was the end of the seven fine cats Dame Wiggins had kept to preserve her from rats . Oh ! how happy they lived with the Dame down ...
... growing feeble ( the Chronicler says ) , Was knocked down by a horse and run o'er by the chaise . So this was the end of the seven fine cats Dame Wiggins had kept to preserve her from rats . Oh ! how happy they lived with the Dame down ...
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... grows ! With its bright blue - bells , and its border of shells , And the columbines planted in rows . Oh , Mary , Mary , why so contrary ? 4 Oh , wherefore say No , no , no ! ' When I'd make you my wife , and as happy for life As a ...
... grows ! With its bright blue - bells , and its border of shells , And the columbines planted in rows . Oh , Mary , Mary , why so contrary ? 4 Oh , wherefore say No , no , no ! ' When I'd make you my wife , and as happy for life As a ...
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... grown vicious- Her parents bid them part . But how can she endure it ? Her anguish , what can cure it ? The bear will keep her heart . Then expired her last fond hope , When she's tempted to elope In most unpropitious weather . MORAL ...
... grown vicious- Her parents bid them part . But how can she endure it ? Her anguish , what can cure it ? The bear will keep her heart . Then expired her last fond hope , When she's tempted to elope In most unpropitious weather . MORAL ...
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Annie baby bear bird Blue Beard bride Bruin Carrion Crow castle caught cook cried dame dance dear descending Dickory dine Doctor Foster door dressed drink ev'ry eyes fairy Fatima feels Flora friendly Hedgehog funny Giant gipsy Golden Pheasant gone Goody Twoshoes guest happy Hark head hear heart Heigho hide horse ITTLE Jack Jack's jolly King King Arthur kissed lady Little Jack Horner LITTLE Polly Flinders looks marry miss monster morn mother mouse ne'er never nice nigh night noose o'er Ogre pieman Polly poor pretty maid Puss pussy cat queer ride rope round rushes Samuel Morgan scarcely shoe Silverlocks Simple Simon sing smell smile soon surprise sweet teetotum There's thing thought three blind mice Tom Tucker tree Twas Whilst wife Young Reynard
Popular passages
Page 130 - Jack and Jill Went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down, And broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after.
Page 96 - OLD Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To get her poor dog a bone: But when she got there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.
Page 30 - Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!
Page 19 - When the bough breaks the era-die will fall, And down will come ba-by, era -die and all. V)T& W '^B — Pi EE±3z=S2=5r ^r*-fc m P v ir " Rock-a-bye, baby, in the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock ; When the bough breaks the cradle will fall. And down will come baby, cradle and all.
Page 95 - Hey, Diddle, Diddle, the cat and the fiddle The cow jumped over the moon.
Page 91 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.
Page 31 - All on a summer's day, As it fell out, they all fell in, — The rest they ran away.
Page 8 - The north wind doth blow, and we shall have snow; And what will the Robin do then, poor thing? He'll sit in a barn, and keep himself warm, And hide his head under his wing, poor thing!
Page 65 - TAFFY WAS A WELSHMAN Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief, Taffy came to my house, and stole a piece of beef.
Page 19 - Hickory, dickory, dock, The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse ran down. Hickory dickory dock.