Extraordinary nursery rhymes and tales, new yet old, tr. into comic verse, by one who was once a child himself |
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... Hear the mite talk ! Wife of the farmer , Married for years , Mourns ' cause she's childless , Often in tears ; Watches at fairy - rings ( At night they come ) , Wished for a babe , though Small as her thumb . B Her request's granted ...
... Hear the mite talk ! Wife of the farmer , Married for years , Mourns ' cause she's childless , Often in tears ; Watches at fairy - rings ( At night they come ) , Wished for a babe , though Small as her thumb . B Her request's granted ...
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... hear advantage To come to Court . Vast applications ! Numbers applied ; But there's none fitting For Tom Thumb's bride , All were much too big . The hope of wealth For the time made them Think small of self . The King arranged them In ...
... hear advantage To come to Court . Vast applications ! Numbers applied ; But there's none fitting For Tom Thumb's bride , All were much too big . The hope of wealth For the time made them Think small of self . The King arranged them In ...
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... hear the gate open , for who should be there But a large , and a small , and a middling bear ! ' There has some one been here ! ' cried a voice loud and gruff . ' There has some one been here ! ' said his wife , ' sure enough . ' ' And ...
... hear the gate open , for who should be there But a large , and a small , and a middling bear ! ' There has some one been here ! ' cried a voice loud and gruff . ' There has some one been here ! ' said his wife , ' sure enough . ' ' And ...
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... hear , Of music , soft and clear , First low , but soon increasing— A lively wedding march : They pause before an arch , To catch those notes so pleasing . ' Oh ! welcome home once more , dear ; Here friends you never saw , dear , All ...
... hear , Of music , soft and clear , First low , but soon increasing— A lively wedding march : They pause before an arch , To catch those notes so pleasing . ' Oh ! welcome home once more , dear ; Here friends you never saw , dear , All ...
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... hear the watchdog bark . Bluebeard is back ! what shall they do ? In vain the door is tried ; It seems a mass of iron plate , no handle placed inside ! They both are caught as in a trap , and no escape seems certain . Annie but little ...
... hear the watchdog bark . Bluebeard is back ! what shall they do ? In vain the door is tried ; It seems a mass of iron plate , no handle placed inside ! They both are caught as in a trap , and no escape seems certain . Annie but little ...
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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 EEħ3z=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.