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... wood , To build us a house , In order that baby May have a good spouse . FACE GAME KNOCK at the door , See a face , Smell an odor , Hear a voice , Eat your dinner , Pull your chin , or Ke chih , ke chih . DON'T BE CRUEL A MULE going ...
... wood , To build us a house , In order that baby May have a good spouse . FACE GAME KNOCK at the door , See a face , Smell an odor , Hear a voice , Eat your dinner , Pull your chin , or Ke chih , ke chih . DON'T BE CRUEL A MULE going ...
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... wood and clay , Dance over , my Lady Lee ; Build it up with wood and clay , With a gay lady . Wood and clay will wash away , Dance over , my Lady Lee ; Wood and clay will wash away , With a gay lady . Build it up with stone so strong ...
... wood and clay , Dance over , my Lady Lee ; Build it up with wood and clay , With a gay lady . Wood and clay will wash away , Dance over , my Lady Lee ; Wood and clay will wash away , With a gay lady . Build it up with stone so strong ...
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... , when She wanted to wander , Would ride through the air On a very fine gander . Mother Goose had a house , ' T was built in a wood , Where an owl at the door For sentinel stood . This is her son Jack , A plain - looking [ 73 ]
... , when She wanted to wander , Would ride through the air On a very fine gander . Mother Goose had a house , ' T was built in a wood , Where an owl at the door For sentinel stood . This is her son Jack , A plain - looking [ 73 ]
Page 77
... How many strawberries grew in the sea . I answered him , as I thought good , As many as red herrings grew in the wood . JACK be nimble , Jack be quick , Jack , jump over the candlestick ! Two legs sat upon three legs , With one leg [ 77 ]
... How many strawberries grew in the sea . I answered him , as I thought good , As many as red herrings grew in the wood . JACK be nimble , Jack be quick , Jack , jump over the candlestick ! Two legs sat upon three legs , With one leg [ 77 ]
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... M ་ ་ Next , whom should they meet but the fox , who was on his way to the wood . Good day to you , " said he ; " where may you all be going in such haste this fine morning ? ' " " " Fox - Lox , " said all of them. [ 103 ]
... M ་ ་ Next , whom should they meet but the fox , who was on his way to the wood . Good day to you , " said he ; " where may you all be going in such haste this fine morning ? ' " " " Fox - Lox , " said all of them. [ 103 ]
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beat dog began billy goat Gruff bite pig bleat bonny song burn stick butcher Chicken-Little chin Cock Cock-Lock dame Dance dear Pancake Dog won't bite fell Fire won't burn gay lady goodman and seven Goody Poody goose grandmother Hen-Pen Henny Penny home to-night Huge Bear Jack Lady Lee Ladybird is burned little fly weeps Little goat Little One Eye little pig little red hen Little Red Riding LITTLE Robin Redbreast little Silver Hair Little Small Wee little table Little Three Eyes Little Two Eyes Manny Panny mee-ow Middle Bear mittens morning mother old woman PAT-A-CAKE Petrum Piggie porridge purr-r Pussy-cat Red Riding Hood roll so fast seven coaxing children sha'n't get home Simple Simon sing sly Fox Small Wee Bear Stick won't beat stile tail THISTLE-SEED three bears THREE LITTLE PIGS tree trip trap voice wait a bit wolf wood
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Page 4 - 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 8 - There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she didn't know what to do ; She gave them some broth without any bread ; She whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
Page 66 - 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 64 - That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 51 - Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them, Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.
Page 31 - 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 32 - 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 7 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before the king?
Page 75 - SIMPLE Simon met a pieman Going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, "Let me taste your ware." Says the pieman to Simple Simon, "Show me first your penny"; Says Simple Simon to the pieman. "Indeed I have not any.
Page 46 - But the ox would not. She went a little farther, and she met a butcher. So she said: "Butcher, butcher, kill ox; Ox won't drink water; Water won't quench fire; Fire won't burn stick; Stick won't beat dog; Dog won't bite pig; Pig won't get over the stile; And I shan't get home to-night.