 | 1856 - 462 pages
...your fat neck as the 'ittle birds did 1" Then he began to sing— " Hushaby, baby, on the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock ; When the bough breaks the cradle will fall : Down comes poor baby, cradle and all !" How long Tom would have gone on tormenting the child no one can tell,... | |
 | George W. Henry - Marriage - 1856 - 486 pages
...preaching comes down in dulcet strains, on itching ears, like our mother's Lullaby baby, upon the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Then down come preachers, church-members and all. The " fourth of July" toast we have quoted, insinuates... | |
 | Caricatures and cartoons - 1857 - 564 pages
...the wild echoes fljiug." MR. SMITH. " Cradled on yonder lofty pine." Nursery Song. " Hush-a-by babVj on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock." MR. SMITH. " No character that scrvant-«vji»d)i asked." POPE. "Most teamen have no characters at... | |
 | George Brewster - 1858 - 464 pages
...melody, that I once loved so well, and that to this day enchants all babydom. " Rock a bye baby upon the tree top, When the wind blows, the cradle will rock ; When the tree breaks, the cradle will fall, Down comes cradle, tree, baby, and all." A long walk brought us... | |
 | Robert Michael Ballantyne - Boys - 1859 - 360 pages
...for such trifles. Almost involuntarily Martin began to hum the popular nursery rhyme — " Hnshy ba, baby, on the tree top ; When the wind blows the cradle will rock." "Arrah, if he was only two foot lower, its thirty pair o' long teeth would be stuck into his flank... | |
 | 302 pages
...wing, He said, " It is my little child's soul An angel has taught to sing." CEADLE SONG. HUÍH-A-BT baby, On the tree top, When the wind blows, The cradle...When the bough breaks, The cradle will fall, Down will come baby, Bough, cradle, and all. THE OLD CAT AND THE MICE. A FABLE. AcAT,havinggrownoldandfeeble,and... | |
 | American Medical Association - Electronic journals - 1865 - 500 pages
...learn by the old stanza, for suspending the child to a tree-top or pendent limb — " Rock-a-by-baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the oradle will fall, And down comes cradle, baby and all." Attached to a pendent limb, or a bent sapling,... | |
 | Lydia M. Millard - Women authors, American - 1865 - 276 pages
...half an hour after, I rocked her to sleep in my arms, singing, — " Rock-a-by baby upon the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock ; When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, k Down comes rock-a-by baby and all." I tucked her snugly in one side of my bed. How prettily she looked... | |
 | 1886 - 504 pages
...not read, '"The piper's mail Stole a pig, and away he ran " '? Nurse. Hush-a-by, baby, On a 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. Baby (slyly'). This, but a truth So familiar, you see, ' As scarcely... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1867 - 788 pages
...of American mothers have since then sung their babies to sleep : " Lullaby baby, upon the tree-top ; When the wind blows, the cradle will rock ; When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall ; And down comes lullaby, baby, and all." VOL. XIX.-.TULY, ISeS.-JVo. V. THE FAIRS OP THE FATHERLAND.... | |
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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. 
