The Nursery Rhyme BookA collection of 332 nursery rhymes grouped under such categories as "Historical," "Tales," "Proverbs," "Songs," "Games," and "Jingles." |
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And I can remember being imprisoned for some crime in the closet where the box
was , and how my gaolers found me , happy and impenitent , sitting on the box ,
with its contents all round me , reading . There was “ Who Killed Cock Robin ...
And I can remember being imprisoned for some crime in the closet where the box
was , and how my gaolers found me , happy and impenitent , sitting on the box ,
with its contents all round me , reading . There was “ Who Killed Cock Robin ...
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There was “ Who Killed Cock Robin > " which I knew by heart before I could read
, and I learned to read ( entirely “ without tears " ) by picking out the letters in the
familiar words . I remember the Lark dressed as a clerk , but what a clerk might ...
There was “ Who Killed Cock Robin > " which I knew by heart before I could read
, and I learned to read ( entirely “ without tears " ) by picking out the letters in the
familiar words . I remember the Lark dressed as a clerk , but what a clerk might ...
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238 He ' s under the hay - cock fast asleep . 241 There I met an old man that
would not say his prayers 243 She whipped him , she slashed him . . . . 245 Title (
Accumulative Stories ) . . . . . 247 This is the house that Jack built . . . . 249 The old
...
238 He ' s under the hay - cock fast asleep . 241 There I met an old man that
would not say his prayers 243 She whipped him , she slashed him . . . . 245 Title (
Accumulative Stories ) . . . . . 247 This is the house that Jack built . . . . 249 The old
...
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They laid 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 , The cat ' s at the fire frying ...
They laid 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 , The cat ' s at the fire frying ...
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... And a farce ? mouse in a mill ; Cock me cary , Kitty alone , Kitty alone and I .
This frog he would a - wooing ride , Kitty alone , & c . ; This frog he would a -
woving ride , And on a snail he got astride , Cock me cary , & c . 1 Merry . West W
Hohe ...
... And a farce ? mouse in a mill ; Cock me cary , Kitty alone , Kitty alone and I .
This frog he would a - wooing ride , Kitty alone , & c . ; This frog he would a -
woving ride , And on a snail he got astride , Cock me cary , & c . 1 Merry . West W
Hohe ...
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Popular passages
Page 79 - A MAN of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds...
Page 163 - 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 31 - Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he: He called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three.
Page 92 - 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 52 - One, two, Buckle my shoe; Three, four, Shut the door; Five, six, Pick up sticks; Seven, eight, Lay them straight; Nine, ten, A good fat hen; Eleven, twelve, Who will delve?
Page 116 - The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!
Page 58 - 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 67 - OLD Mother Goose, when She wanted to wander, Would ride through the air On a very fine gander. Mother Goose had a house, Twas built in a wood, Where an owl at the door For sentinel stood.
Page 253 - AN old woman was sweeping her house, and she found a little crooked sixpence. " What," said she, " shall I do with this little sixpence ? I will go to market, and buy a little pig.
Page 172 - Bull's eyes and targets, Say the bells of St. Marg'ret's. Brickbats and tiles, Say the bells of St. Giles'. Half-pence and farthings, Say the bells of St. Martin's. Oranges and lemons, Say the bells of St. Clement's. Pancakes and fritters, Say the bells of St. Peter's. Two sticks and an apple, Say the bells at Whitechapel.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Nursery Rhyme Book Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Opie collection of children's literature ; 019:421 |
| Editor | Andrew Lang |
| Illustrated by | Leonard Leslie Brooke |
| Publisher | Frederick Warne and Company, 1897 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 288 pages |
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