...Joe sullenly confess'd, He was convinced that wives could do The household business best. ADY-bird, Lady-bird, Fly away home, Your house is on fire, Your children will burn. 1. ET us go to the wood, says this pig ; 2. What to do there? says that pig ; 3. To look for...

...; With me shall no mischief betide thee : No harm would I do tbee, no foeman is near : I only would gaze on thy beauties so dear, Those beautiful winglets...beside thee. Lady-bird ! Lady-bird ! fly away home, Thy house is a-fire, thy children will roam ; List ! list ! to their cry and bewailing : The pitiless...

...; With me shall no mischief betide thee : No harm would I do thee, no foeman is near : I only would gaze on thy beauties so dear, Those beautiful winglets...beside thee. Ladybird ! Ladybird ! fly away home, Thy house is a-fire, thy children will roam ; List ! list ! to their cry and bewailing : The pitiless...

...Among English children, too, a remnant of such ancient folk-lore has been preserved in the song, " Lady-bird, lady-bird ! fly away home ! Your house is on fire; your children at home ! " The " house on fire " is the sunlit abode of Freia, " our lady." The " children at home,"...

...the window, exclaiming, "Oh! it's a 'Judy Cow,' as nurse calls it. I know a rhyme about it too— * Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children are gone!'" "A Judy Cow!" cried her companion; " what a funny name! What has Judy to do with it ? We...

...and their supposed misfortunes affect deeply sensitive little hearts, while infantile accents lisp " Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home ; your house is on fire, your children are burned." They are distinguishable chiefly by the colors of and the spots upon their wing covers...

...and their supposed misfortunes affect deeply sensitive little hearts, while infantile accents lisp " Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home ; your house is on fire, your children are burned." They are distinguishable chiefly by the colors of and the spots upon their wing covers...

...; With me shall no mischief betide thec ; No harm would I do thee, no foeman is near: I only would gaze on thy beauties so dear, Those beautiful winglets beside thee. Lady-bird 1 Lady-bird ! fly away home, Thy house is a-fire, thy children will roam ; List 1 list ! to their cry...

...Those beautiful wiugleis beside thee. Lady-blrd ! Lady-bird ! fly away home, Thy house is a-fire, thy children will roam ; •<•* • List ! list ! to...pitiless spider is weaving their doom, Then, Lady-bird ! Lady-blrd ! fly away home ; Hark ! hark ! to thy children's bewailing. Fly back again, back again,...

...believe that were they to kill the insect the sun would not shine the next day. The English rhyme — " Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will burn," seems to have some reference to the insect's ministrations with fire, the more so as the ladybird...