Book of Rhymes, Jingles and DittiesCharles Henry Bennett |
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... that I could easily call to mind . And , with love to all at home , Believe me to be , My dear little Boy , Your affectionate friend , CHARLES H. BE LONDON , November , 1857 . OLD NURSE'S BOOL OF RHYMES , JINGLES AND DITTIES . ( v )
... that I could easily call to mind . And , with love to all at home , Believe me to be , My dear little Boy , Your affectionate friend , CHARLES H. BE LONDON , November , 1857 . OLD NURSE'S BOOL OF RHYMES , JINGLES AND DITTIES . ( v )
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... , Pussy - cat , where have you been ? I've been to London to look at the Queen ; Pussy - cat , Pussy - cat , what did you there ? I frighten❜d a little mouse under the chair . . PETER PIPER picked a peck of pepper , A peck. ( 30 )
... , Pussy - cat , where have you been ? I've been to London to look at the Queen ; Pussy - cat , Pussy - cat , what did you there ? I frighten❜d a little mouse under the chair . . PETER PIPER picked a peck of pepper , A peck. ( 30 )
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... London town ? One foot up , the other foot down , That is the way to London town . SNAIL , snail , come out of your hole ,. ( 36 )
... London town ? One foot up , the other foot down , That is the way to London town . SNAIL , snail , come out of your hole ,. ( 36 )
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... London to buy me a wife . The roads were so bad , and the lanes were so narrow , I was forced to bring my wife home in a wheel - barrow . The wheel - barrow broke , and my wife had a fall , Down came wheel - barrow , wife , and all ...
... London to buy me a wife . The roads were so bad , and the lanes were so narrow , I was forced to bring my wife home in a wheel - barrow . The wheel - barrow broke , and my wife had a fall , Down came wheel - barrow , wife , and all ...
Common terms and phrases
522 BROADWAY apple baby began Bells of St bird blow Bo-peep bread broke Brush our hair Bumpety Chitterabob could'nt crooked danced deedle diccory dickery diddlety diddy DING dish dog has burnt door doth drink eggs fell fiddle flew girls Hearts Hobbledy-hoy Humpty Dumpty ITTLE Jack JAMES MILLER Jenny Wren Jill Johnny jump'd jumped king legs LITTLE Bo-peep little boys little dog LITTLE Robin Red-breast London town Lumpety maids mare mice Mother Goose mouse Mulberry bush NEEDLES and pins old woman peck of pepper Peter Piper picked pieman Pinnikin pipe piper's son PITTY Patty Polt playmates plum Polly put poor pudding PUSSY Pussy-cat put the kettle queerish quidbox Quixote Quixote Quicksight quiz'd quiz'd a queerish Redbreast Robin Red-breast Sat sing snail Stick stole story's Sukey take Taffy tarts tell Three THREE blind mice tree Twas twist twister wheel-barrow wife
Popular passages
Page 44 - There was an old woman who lived In a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
Page 30 - Twas built in a wood, Where an owl at the door For sentinel stood. This is her son Jack, A plain-looking lad, He is not very good, Nor yet very bad. She sent him to market, A live goose he bought, Here, mother...
Page 4 - As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits — Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?
Page 29 - One misty, moisty morning, When cloudy was the weather, I chanced to meet an old man clothed all in leather. He began to compliment, and I began to grin, How do you do, and how do you do?
Page 36 - I R)BIN and Richard were two pretty men, They lay in bed till the clock struck ten: Then up starts Robin, and looks at the sky, 'Oh! brother Richard, the sun's very high, The bull's in the barn threshing the corn; The cock's on the dunghill blowing his horn.
Page 45 - There was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, And yet this old woman would never be quiet.
Page 19 - Rockabye Baby, on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, cradle and all.
Page 37 - Humpty together again. ide a cockhorse to Banbury Cross, To see a fine lady upon a white horse; With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, She shall have music wherever she goes.
Page 46 - THERE WAS A MAN IN OUR TOWN. There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise ; He jumped into a bramble bush, And scratched out both his eyes : And when he saw his eyes were out, With all his might and main He jumped into another bush, And scratched them in again.
Page 46 - THERE was an old woman lived under a hill, And if she's not gone, she lives there still.