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... stand in a row , one acting as Mother . The young gentlemen are ranged opposite as the Knights . One of them , advancing , says to the Mother : - Knight . Here I am come a Knight of Spain , Ready to marry your daughter Jane . I'm rich ...
... stand in a row , one acting as Mother . The young gentlemen are ranged opposite as the Knights . One of them , advancing , says to the Mother : - Knight . Here I am come a Knight of Spain , Ready to marry your daughter Jane . I'm rich ...
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... raises his feet , so that the doll appears to stand upright ; as soon as they enter the figure begins to act all sorts of antics , and the effect is exceedingly comic . THE GAME OF FLOWERS . One of the players represents THE DUTCH DOLL .
... raises his feet , so that the doll appears to stand upright ; as soon as they enter the figure begins to act all sorts of antics , and the effect is exceedingly comic . THE GAME OF FLOWERS . One of the players represents THE DUTCH DOLL .
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... standing , and returned to their rumble . But as they were on the point of starting , the coachman dropped his whip , and the groom had to jump off the box and pick it up . Then the brown horse grew rather troublesome , but a cut of the ...
... standing , and returned to their rumble . But as they were on the point of starting , the coachman dropped his whip , and the groom had to jump off the box and pick it up . Then the brown horse grew rather troublesome , but a cut of the ...
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... stands outside with a slipper , and commences the game with the follow- ing dialogue : - ( c Is Mr. Cobbler at home ? " " Yes . " " Well , I want this shoe mended . " " Very well , sir . " 66 When will it be ready ? " " To. 36 HUNT THE ...
... stands outside with a slipper , and commences the game with the follow- ing dialogue : - ( c Is Mr. Cobbler at home ? " " Yes . " " Well , I want this shoe mended . " " Very well , sir . " 66 When will it be ready ? " " To. 36 HUNT THE ...
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... stands within a ring of the children , the other walks round outside . Shepherd . Who is going round my sheep - fold ? The other answers : Only poor Jack Lingo . Shepherd . Don't steal any of my black sheep . The other says : No , no ...
... stands within a ring of the children , the other walks round outside . Shepherd . Who is going round my sheep - fold ? The other answers : Only poor Jack Lingo . Shepherd . Don't steal any of my black sheep . The other says : No , no ...
Common terms and phrases
Bessie black horse breakfast call brown horse BUFF butler choke a dog city of Timbuctoo clog coachman Cock me cary crumpled horn daughter Jane dog Ball DOSSY Eight joiners Eyebright FAMILY COACH Fitzwiggin Five puppies flowers footman Four horses stuck Frank Martin Game gaping garden gate genteel lady Giles Collins Grand Mufti groom Harry Johnson heads would choke HONEY POTS house that Jack Jack built jinger ring John Ball shot John Block John Brammer John Crowder John Scott John Wyming joiners in Joiners killed the rat KING ARTHUR Kitty Knight M'Gee's fled malt That lay Mother Ned Martin nosegay old woman's apple-stall pay a forfeit players pretty little miss pudding heads Queen rammer riddle saw a house saw a street says Seven lobsters Simple Simon singing Six beetles song street I saw Three monkeys tied Timbuctoo I saw Tom Brown tossed the dog waddling frog Walter Brown wide-mouthed worried the cat
Popular passages
Page 87 - Yon house, erected on the rising ground, With tempting aspect drew me from my road ; For plenty there a residence has found, And grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the...
Page 99 - 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 87 - PITY the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door ; Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span ; Oh ! give relie-t", and Heaven will bless your store.
Page 94 - That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the farmer sowing his corn That kept the cock that crowed in the morn That waked 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 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." Simple Simon went a-fishing For to catch a whale; All the water he had got Was in his mother's pail. Simple Simon went to look If plums grew on a thistle; He pricked his fingers very much, Which made poor Simon whistle.
Page 71 - He rode till he came to my Lady Mouse hall, And there he did both knock and call, Cock me cary, &c. Quoth he, Miss Mouse, I'm come to thee, Kitty alone, &c.
Page 90 - This is the Cat that killed the Rat that ate the Malt that lay in the House that Jack built. This is the Dog that worried the Cat that killed the Rat that ate the Malt that lay in the House that Jack built.
Page 105 - As I was going to St. Ives, / I met a man with seven wives. / Each wife had seven sacks, / Each sack had seven cats, / Each cat had seven kits. / Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, / How many were going to St. Ives?
Page 74 - Says the pieman to Simple Simon, " Show me first your penny ; " Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
Page 107 - Flour of England, fruit of Spain, Met together in a shower of rain; Put in a bag tied round with a string, If you'll tell me this riddle, I'll give you a ring.