The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Little Mother Goose, by Jessie Willcox Smith.

Hush-a-by, baby, on the treetop

When the wind blows the cradle will rock

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY

Copyright, 1912, 1913, 1914
By GOOD HOUSEKEEPING MAGAZINE

Copyright, 1914
By DODD, MEAD & COMPANY

Copyright, 1918
By DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America

A, B, C, tumble down D	165
A carrion crow sat on an oak	136
A cat came fiddling out of a barn	49
A diller, a dollar	173
A duck and a drake	9
Aena, deena, dina, duss	73
A frog he would a-wooing go	147
A glass of milk and a slice of bread	138
A good child, a good child	31
A hill full, a hole full	79
All of a row	6
A long-tailed pig, or a short-tailed pig	97
An old woman lived in Nottingham town	47
A red sky at night	30
A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose	93
As high as a castle	27
As I was going o'er London Bridge	116
As I was going to St. Ives	2
As I was going up and down	107
As I was going up Pippin Hill	15
As the days grow longer	50
As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks	3
A sunshine shower	105
[vi]A sunshiny shower	135
A swarm of bees in May	48
At the siege of Belleisle	65
Awake, arise, pull out your eyes	87
A was an archer	166
A water there is	53
Baa, baa, black sheep	26
Bat, bat, come under my hat	52
Bell horses, bell horses, what time of day	122
Birds of a feather flock together	137
Blow, wind, blow! and go, mill, go!	145
Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea	109
Bossy-cow, bossy-cow, where do you lie?	108
Bow-wow-wow	3
Brow brinky	129
Bryan O'Lin and his wife	47
Bryan O'Lin had no breeches to wear	23
Burnie bee, burnie bee	53
Butterfly, butterfly, whence do you come?	94
Buz, quoth the blue fly	57
Bye, baby bunting	3
Cantaloupes! Cantaloupes! What is the price?	1
Charley Warley had a cow	90
Christmas comes but once a year	135
Clap, clap handies	65
Cock a doodle doo	103
Cocks crow in the morn	21
Come hither, sweet robin	131
Come, let's to bed!	66
Come, my dear children	74
Come to the window	117
Come when you're called	29
Cross Patch	90
Cry, baby, cry	79
Curly locks! Curly locks! wilt thou be mine?	49
Currahoo, curr dhoo	1
Daffy-Down-Dilly	25
Dance to your daddy	105
Darby and Joan were dress'd in black	85
[vii]Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John	42
Dickory, dickory, dock	67
Ding, dong, bell	14-103
Ding, dong, darrow	21
Doctor Faustus was a good man	91
Doctor Foster went to Gloster	169
Dogs in the garden, catch 'em, Towser	23
Donkey, donkey, old and gray	58
Draw a pail of water	54
Eggs, butter, cheese, bread	27
Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess	63
Elsie Marley has grown so fine	18
Father, may I go to war?	127
F for a fig	176
For every evil under the sun	107
Friday night's dream on Saturday told	39
Georgey Porgey, pudding and pie	55
God bless the master of this house	132
Good horses, bad horses	57
Goosey, goosey, gander	118
Great A, little a, Bouncing B	101
Great A, little A	10
Handy Spandy, Jack-a-dandy	45
Hark! hark! the dogs do bark	107
Hector Protector was dressed all in green	58
Heigh, diddle, diddle	100
Here am I, little jumping Joan	62
Here sits the Lord Mayor	19
Here's Sulky Sue	158
Here stands a post	9
Here we go round the mulberry bush	134
Hickery Dickery 6 and 7	106
Hickory Dickory, sackory down	50
Hickety, pickety, my black hen	95
Higher than a house	17
Hink minx! the old witch winks	32
Hiram Gordon, where's your pa?	144
Hot cross buns	76
How many miles is it to Babylon?	104
Hub-a-dub-dub	122
[viii]Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall	76
Hush-a-bye, baby, Daddy is near	125
Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top	1
Hush, baby, my doll	46
I am a gold lock	81
I bought a dozen new-laid eggs	107
I do not like thee, Dr. Fell	89
If all the seas were one sea	106
If all the world was apple-pie	119
If all the world were water	123
If ifs and ands	79
I had a little husband	118
I had a little nut-tree	35
I had a little pony	84
I had four brothers over the sea	155
I have a little sister	139
I'll tell you a story	9
I like little pussy, her coat is so warm	69
I love you well, my little brother	133
In fir tar is	57
Intery, mintery, cutery, corn	55
I saw a peacock with a fiery tail	61
It costs little Gossip her income for shoes	157
It's raining, it's pouring	169
I went to the wood and got it	85
I went up one pair of stairs	146
I will sing you a song	109
I won't be my father's Jack	50
Jack and Jill went up the hill	80
Jack, be nimble; Jack, be quick	84
Jack Spratt could eat no fat	97
Jack Spratt had a cat	10
Jack Spratt's pig	125
Jerry Hall, he is so small	39
Jockey was a piper's son	40
John, come sell thy fiddle	14
Joseph Smith bought a rake	27
Ladies and gentlemen, come to supper	152
Lady bird, lady bird, fly away home	87
Lady-bug, lady-bug	48
Lazy Tom, with jacket blue	53
Little Betty Blue	39
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep	16
[ix]Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn	8
Little Cock Robin peeped out of his cabin	32
Little drops of water	31
Little girl, little girl, where have you been?	33
Little Jack Horner	100
Little King Boggen he built a fine hall	173
Little lad, little lad	32
Little maid, little maid	50
Little maid, pretty maid	34
Little Miss Donnet	41
Little Miss Lily	47
Little Miss Muffet	32
Little Nancy Etticote	30
Little Poll Parrot	41
Little Polly Flinders	119
Little Robin Red-breast sat upon a rail	29
Little Tommy Grace	43
Little Tommy Tittlemouse	77
Little Tommy Tucker	99
Little Tom Twig	132
Love your own, kiss your own	40
Lucy Locket lost her pocket	24
Made in London	31
Make three-fourths of a cross	71
Margaret wrote a letter	11
Margery Mutton-pie and Johnny Bopeep	82
Mary had a little lamb	68
Mary had a pretty bird	86
Mary, Mary, quite contrary	73
Merry are the bells	130
Miss Jane had a bag	93
Monday's bairn is fair of face	139
Multiplication is vexation	60
My little old man and I fell out	77
My maid Mary, she minds the dairy	5
My mother, and your mother	71
My pussy-cat has got the gout	129
My story's ended	28
Nancy Dawson has grown so fine	128
Needles and pins	169
Nose, nose, jolly red nose	108
Now go to sleep, my little son	104[x]
Of all the gay birds that e'er I did see	114
Oh, dear, What can the matter be? Johnny's so long	62
Old Father Grey Beard	40
Old Grimes is dead	128
Old King Cole was a merry old soul	175
Old Mother Hubbard	162
One, he loves; two, he loves	46
One for the money	96
One misty, moisty morning	37
One, two, buckle my shoe	51
One, two, three, four, Mary at the cottage door	114
One, two, three, four, five, catching fishes all alive	114
1, 2, 3, 4, 5! I caught a hare alive	67
On Saturday night it shall be my whole care	25
Over the water and under the water	15
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake	2
Pease-porridge hot	4-158
Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater	57
Peter Piper picked a peck	129
Peter White will ne'er go right	165
Phoebe rode a nanny-goat	13
Pickeleem, pickeleem pummis-stone	35
Pit, pat, well-a-day	31
Pitty Patty Polt	27
Play, play every day	29
Please to remember	5
Polly, put the kettle on	13
Polly, Dolly, Kate and Molly	12
Poor Dog Bright	6
Pussy Cat Mole	88
Pussy-Cat, pussy-cat, where have you been?	109
Pussy sits beside the fire	37
Rain, rain, go away	65
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady	89
Ride a cock-horse to Shrewsbury Cross	44
Riddle-me, riddle-me, riddle-me-ree	91
Ring-a-round-a roses	40
[xi]Ring the bell!	4
Robert Barnes, fellow fine	94
Robin and Richard were two pretty men	101
Robin the Bobbin, the big-bellied Ben	138
Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green	74
Rosemary green, and lavender blue	44
Rowley Powley, pudding and pie	175
Rub-a-dub-dub	5
See a pin and pick it up	83
See-saw Jack in the hedge	29
See-saw, Margery Daw, Jacky shall have a new master	101
See-saw, Margery Daw, Jenny shall have a new master	9
See-saw, sacaradown, sacaradown	25
Shoe the colt	36
Shoe the horse and shoe the mare	27
Sing a song of sixpence	70
Sing, sing! What shall I sing?	10
Smiling girls, rosy boys	129
Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for danger	157
Solomon Grundy	76
Some little mice sat in a barn to spin	20
Speak when you're spoken to	137
St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain	114
Swan, swam over the sea	107
Taffy was a Welshman	145
Tell-tale-tit!	99
Ten little Injuns standing in a line	124
The calf, the goose, the bee	69
The cock doth crow	6
The cock's on the housetop blowing his horn	33
The cuckoo's a fine bird	74
The dove says, "Coo, coo, what shall I do?"	6
The girl in the lane, that couldn't speak plain	34
The greedy man is he who sits	45
The King of France went up the hill	7
The lion and the unicorn	174
[xii]The man in the moon came tumbling down	121
The man in the moon looked out of the moon	93
The man in the wilderness asked me	92
The North wind doth blow	152
The old woman must stand at the tub	54
The Queen of Hearts	146
The rose is red, the violet is blue	20
The two gray kits	17
The winds they did blow	78
There dwelt an old woman at Exeter	85
There was a crooked man	71
There was a little boy and a little girl	31
There was a little girl who had a little curl	45
There was a little girl who wore a little hood	23
There was a little green house	79
There was a little man and he had a little gun	116
There was a little one-eyed gunner	80
There was a man in our town and he was wondrous wise	63
There was an old crow	29
There was an old woman, and what do you think	28
There was an old woman, as I've heard tell	153
There was an old woman and nothing she had	117
There was an old woman called Nothing-at-all	73
There was an old woman had three cows	44
There was an old woman, her name it was Peg	38
There was an old woman in Surrey	43
There was an old woman lived under a hill, and if she's not gone	19
There was an old woman lived under a hill, she put a mouse in a bag	14
There was an old woman of Harrow,	87
There was an old woman of Leeds,	82
[xiii]There was an old woman tossed up in a basket	75
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe	88
There was an owl lived in an oak	127
There was a rat for want of stairs	62
There once were two cats of Kilkenny	115
There's a neat little clock	96
There were two blackbirds	52
Thirty days hath September	83
This is the house that Jack built	140
This is the way the ladies ride	126
This little pig went to market	7
This pig went to the barn	115
Three Blind Mice	64
Three children sliding on the ice	102
Three little kittens they lost their mittens	159
Three wise men of Gotham	71
Tit, tat, toe	56
To market, to market a gallop, a trot	173
To market, to market, to buy a plum cake	22
Tommy Trot, a man of laws	95
Tom, Tom, the Piper's son, he learnt to play when he was young,	20
Tom, Tom, the Piper's son, stole a pig	123
Toss up my darling	9
Trip and go, heave and ho	10
Tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee	122
Twinkle, twinkle, little star	120
Two little dogs	65
Up at Piccadilly, oh!	67
Up hill and down dale	67
Upon my word and honor	172
Was ever heard such noise and clamor	60
Wash the dishes	36
Wasn't it funny	58
Wear you a hat, or wear you a crown	52
Wee Willie Winkie	56
What do they call you?	73
What God never sees	53
What is the rhyme for porringer	82
[xiv]
When I was a bachelor, I lived by myself	98
When I was taken from the fair body	13
When Jacky's a very good boy	133
When little Fred went to bed	59
When the days begin to lengthen	1
Where are you going, my pretty maid?	72
Whistle, daughter, whistle	38
Who comes here?	59
Who killed Cock Robin?	170
"Will you walk into my parlor?"	110
Willy boy, Willy boy	79
Yankee Doodle went to town	174[xv]

See saw, Margery Daw,

Jenny shall have a new master

HUSH-a-bye, baby, on the tree top,

When the wind blows, the cradle will rock;

When the bough bends, the cradle will fall.

Down will come baby, cradle, and all.

CURRAHOO, curr dhoo,

Love me, and I'll love you!

[Imitate a Pigeon]

WHEN the days begin to lengthen

The cold begins to strengthen.

CANTALOUPES! Cantaloupes! What is the price?

Eight for a dollar, and all very nice[2].

PAT-A-CAKE, pat-a-cake, baker's man!

Make me a cake as fast as you can:

Pat it, and prick it, and mark it with T,

And there will be enough for Baby and me.

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 there going to St. Ives?

[One]

BYE, baby, bunting,

Daddy's gone a-hunting,

To get a little rabbit skin

To wrap his baby bunting in.

AS Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks

Were walking out one Sunday,

Says Tommy Snooks to Bessy Brooks,

"To-morrow will be Monday."

BOW-WOW-WOW,

Whose dog art thou?

Little Tom Tucker's dog,

Bow-wow-wow.

PEASE-porridge hot,

Pease-porridge cold,

Pease-porridge in the pot

Nine days old.

Spell me that in four letters.

I will.

T-H-A-T.

RING the bell!

Knock at the door!

Lift up the latch!

And walk in!

RUB-A-DUB-DUB,

Three men in a tub;

And who do you think they be?

The butcher, the baker,

The candlestick-maker;

Turn 'em out, knaves all three!

PLEASE to remember

The Fifth of November,

Gunpowder, treason, and plot;

I know no reason

Why gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot.

MY maid Mary she minds the dairy,

While I go a-hoeing and mowing each morn;

Gaily run the reel and the little spinning wheel,

While I am singing and mowing my corn.

POOR Dog Bright

Ran off with all his might,

Because the cat was after him—

Poor Dog Bright!

Poor Cat Fright

Ran off with all her might,

Because the dog was after her—

Poor Cat Fright!

ALL of a row,

Bend the bow,

Shot at a pigeon,

And killed a crow.

THE cock doth crow,

To let you know,

If you be well,

'Tis time to rise.

THE dove says, "Coo, coo, what shall I do?

I can scarce maintain two."

"Pooh! pooh!" says the wren; "I have got ten,

And keep them all like gentlemen."

THIS little pig went to market.

This little pig stayed home.

This little pig had roast meat.

This little pig had none.

This little pig went to the barn door

And cried week, week, for more.

THe King of France went up the hill

With twenty thousand men;

The King of France came down the hill,

And ne'er went up again.

LITTLE boy blue, come blow your horn;

The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.

Where's the little boy that looks after the sheep?

He's under the hay-cock, fast a-sleep.

Will you wake him? No, not I;

For if I do, he'll be sure to cry.

SEE saw, Margery Daw,

Jenny shall have a new master;

She shall have but a penny a-day,

Because she can't work any faster.

HERE stands a post,—

Who put it there?

A better man than you:

Touch it if you dare?

A DUCK and a drake,

And a halfpenny cake,

With a penny to pay the old baker.

A hop and a scotch

Is another notch,

Slitherum, slatherum, take her.

I'LL tell you a story,

About John-a-Nory:

And now my story's begun.

I'll tell you another,

About Jack and his brother,

And now my story's done.

TOSS up my darling, toss him up high,

Don't let his head, though, hit the blue sky[10].

TRIP and go, heave and ho!

Up and down, to and fro;

From the town to the grove,

Two and two, let us rove,

A-maying, a-playing;

Love hath no gainsaying!

So merrily trip and go!

GREAT A, little A,

This is pancake day;

Toss the ball high,

Throw the ball low,

Those that come after

May sing Heigh-ho!

SING, sing!—What shall I sing?

The cat's run away with the pudding-bag string!

JACK Sprat

Had a cat,

It had but one ear;

It went to buy butter

When butter was dear[11].

MARGARET wrote a letter,

Sealed it with her finger,

Threw it in the dam

For the dusty miller.

Dusty was his coat,

Dusty was the siller,

Dusty was the kiss

I'd from the dusty miller.

If I had my pockets

Full of gold and siller,

I would give it all

To my dusty miller.

POLLY, Dolly, Kate and Molly, All are filled with pride and folly.
	Polly tattles, Dolly wriggles, Katy rattles, Molly giggles;
Whoe'er knew such constant rattling, Wriggling, giggling, noise, and tattling

WHEN I was taken from the fair body,

They then cut off my head,

And thus my shape was altered.

It's I that make peace between King and ring,

And many a true lover glad.

All this I do, and ten times more,

And more I could do still;

But nothing can I do

Without my guider's will.

[A quill pen]

POLLY put the kettle on,
Susy took it off;
Aunt Jemima's little girl
Has got the whooping cough.

PHOEBE rode a nanny goat,
Susy broke her leg,
Father took his wedding coat
And hung it on a peg.

THERE was an old woman Lived under a hill; She put a mouse in a bag, And sent it to the mill. The miller declar'd By the point of his knife, He never took toll Of a mouse in his life.	DING, dong, bell, Pussy's in the well! Who put her in? Little Johnny Green; Who pulled her out, Big Tom Stout; What a naughty boy was that To try and drown poor pussy cat, Who never did any harm, And killed the mice in his father's barn.
"JOHN, come sell thy fiddle, And buy thy wife a gown." "No, I'll not sell my fiddle, For ne'er a wife in town."

AS I was going up Pippen Hill,

Pippen Hill was dirty;

There I met a pretty Miss,

And she dropped me a curtsy.

Little Miss, pretty Miss,

Blessing light upon you;

If I had half a crown a-day,

I'd spend it all upon you.

OVER the water,

And under the water,

And always with its head down.

[Icicle]

Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And can't tell where to find them

LITTLE BO-PEEP has lost her sheep,
And can't tell where to find them;
Let them alone, and they'll come home,
And bring their tails behind them.

Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep
And dreamt she heard them bleating:
But when she awoke she found it a joke,
For still they all were fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook,
Determined for to find them;
She found 'em indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
For they'd left their tails behind 'em.

It happened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray
Unto a meadow hard by,
There she espied their tails, side by side,
All hung on a tree to dry.

HIGHER than a house, higher than a tree, Oh, whatever can it be? [A Star]
THE two gray kits And the gray kits' mother All went over The bridge together. The bridge broke down, They all fell in; May the rats go with you, Says Tom Robin.

ELSIE Marley has grown so fine,

She won't get up to serve the swine;

But lies in bed till eight or nine,

And surely she does take her time.

[Game on a child's features]

HERE sits the Lord Mayor	forehead
Here sit his two men	eyes
Here sits the cock	right cheek
Here sits the hen	left cheek
Here sit the little chickens	top of nose
Here they run in	mouth
Chinchopper, chinchopper,
Chinchopper, chin!	chuck the chin

THERE was an old woman she lived under a hill,

And if she's not gone, she lives there still.

Baked apples she sold, and cranberry pies,

And she's the old woman that never told lies.

THE rose is red, the violet is blue,

The gillyflower is sweet and so are you:

These are the words you bade me say

For a pair of new gloves on Easter-day.

TOM, Tom, the piper's son,

He learnt to play when he was young.

He with his pipe made such a noise,

That he pleased all the girls and boys.

SOME little mice sat in a barn to spin,

Pussy came by, and she popped her head in;

"Shall I come in and cut your threads off?"

"Oh, no, kind sir, you will snap our heads off."

COCK crows in the morn,

To tell us to rise.

And he who lies late

Will never be wise:

For early to bed,

And early to rise,

Is the way to be healthy

And wealthy and wise.

DING, dong, darrow,

The cat and the sparrow;

The little dog has burnt his tail,

And he shall be hanged to-morrow.

	TO market, to market, to buy a plum cake, Home again, home again, market is late; To market, to market, to buy a plum bun,
Home again, home again, market is done.

THERE was a little girl who wore a little hood,
And a curl down the middle of her forehead;
When she was good, she was very, very good,
But when she was bad, she was horrid.

BRYAN O'LIN had no breeches to wear,
So he bought him a sheepskin and made him a pair.
With the skinny side out, and the woolly side in,
"Ah, ha, that is warm!" said Bryan O'Lin.

DOGS in the garden, catch 'em, Towser;
Cows in the cornfield, run, boys, run;
Cats in the cream-pot, run, girls, run, girls;
Fire on the mountains, run, boys, run.

	LUCY Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it: Not a penny in it, But a ribbon 'round it.

One foot up, the other foot down,

And that is the way to London town

SEE-SAW, sacaradown, sacaradown.
Which is the way to London town?
One foot up, and the other foot down,
That is the way to London town.

ON Saturday night, it shall be my care
To powder my locks and curl my hair.
On Sunday morning, my love will come in,
When he will marry me with a gold ring.

DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY has come up to town
In a fine petticoat and a green gown.

BAA, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir,
Three bags full:

One for the master,
One for the dame,
But none for the little boy
Who cries in the lane.

PITTY Patty Polt,
Shoe the wild colt;
Here a nail,
And there a nail,
Pitty Patty Polt.

EGGS, butter, cheese, bread,
Stick, stock, stone, dead.
Stick him up, stick him down,
Stick him in the old man's crown.

AS high as a castle,
As weak as a wastle;
And all the king's horses
Cannot pull it down.
[Smoke]

JOSEPH Smith bought a rake,
And sold it for some corn;
He lived a week on johnny cake,
And now he's dead and gone.

SHOE the horse, and shoe the mare,

But let the little colt go bare.

THERE was an Old Woman,

And what do you think?

She lived upon nothing but

Victuals and drink;

And though victuals and drink

Were the chief of her diet,

This little Old Woman

Could never be quiet.

MY story's ended, spoon is bended;

If you don't like it,

Go to the next door,

And get it mended.

COME when you're called,
Do what you're bid;
Shut the door after you,
Never be chid.

LITTLE Robin Red-breast
Sat upon a rail,
Needle, naddle, went his head,
Wiggle, waggle, went his tail.

THERE was an old crow
Sat upon a clod;
There's an end of my song,
That's odd!

PLAY, play every day,
Harry throws his time away.
He must work and he must read,
And then he'll be a man indeed.

SEE-saw-Jack in the hedge,

Which is the way to London Bridge?

LITTLE Nancy Etticote,

In a white petticoat,

With a red nose;

The longer she stands,

The shorter she grows.

[A Candle]

A RED sky at night

Is the shepherd's delight.

A red sky in the morning

Is the shepherd's warning.

THERE was a little boy and a little girl Lived in our alley; Says the little boy to the little girl, "Shall I, oh, shall I?" Says the little girl to the little boy, "What shall we do?" Says the little boy to the little girl, "I will kiss you!"	LITTLE drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean, And the pleasant land. MADE in London, Sold at New York, Stops a bottle, And is a cork.
A GOOD child, a good child, As I suppose you be; Never laugh nor smile, At the tickling of your knee.	PIT, pat, well-a-day, Little Robin flew away; Where can little Robin be? Gone into the cherry-tree.

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,

Eating of curds and whey

LITTLE Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating of curds and whey;
There came a spider,
And sat down beside her,
And frightened Miss Muffet away.

LITTLE lad, little lad,
Where wast thou born?
Far off in Lancashire,
Under a thorn;
Where they sup sour milk
From a ram's horn.

HINK minx! the old witch winks,

The fat begins to fry:

There's nobody home but jumping Joan,

Father, Mother, and I.

LITTLE Cock Robin peeped out of his cabin

To see the cold winter come in.

Tit for tat, what matter for that?

He'll hide his head under his wing![33]

LITTLE girl, little girl, where have you been?
Gathering roses to give to the queen.
Little girl, little girl, what gave she you?
She gave me a diamond as big as my shoe.

THE cock's on the housetop blowing his horn;
The bull's in the barn a-threshing of corn;
The maids in the meadows are making of hay;
The ducks in the river are swimming away.

LITTLE maid, pretty maid, whither goest thou?"

"Down in the forest to milk my cow."

"Shall I go with thee?" "No, not now;

When I send for thee, then come thou."

THE girl in the lane, that couldn't speak plain,

Cried, "Gobble, gobble, gobble:"

The man on the hill, that couldn't stand still,

Went hobble, hobble, hobble.

I HAD a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear

But a silver nutmeg and a golden pear;

The king of Spain's daughter came to visit me,

And all was because of my little nut-tree.

I skipped over water, I danced over sea,

And all the birds in the air couldn't catch me.

PICKELEEM, pickeleem, pummis-stone!

What is the news, my beautiful one?

My pet doll-baby, Frances Maria,

Suddenly fainted, and fell in the fire;

The clock on the mantle gave the alarm,

But all we could save was one china arm.

WASH the dishes, wipe the dishes,

Ring the bell for tea;

Three good wishes, three good kisses,

I will give to thee.

SHOE the colt,
Shoe the colt,
Shoe the wild mare;
Here a nail,
There a nail,
Yet she goes bare.

PUSSY sits beside the fire. How can she be fair?

In walks a little doggy—Pussy, are you there?

So, so, Mistress Pussy, how do you do?

Thank you, thank you, little dog,

I'm very well just now.

ONE misty, moisty morning,

When cloudy was the weather,

I chanced to meet an old man clothed all in leather.

He began to compliment, and I began to grin.

How do you do, and how do you do?

And how do you do again?

THERE was an old woman, her name it was Peg;

Her head was of wood, and she wore a cork leg.

The neighbors all pitched her into the water,

Her leg was drown'd first, and her head follow'd a'ter.

WHISTLE, daughter, whistle; whistle, daughter dear.

I cannot whistle, mammy, I cannot whistle clear.

Whistle, daughter, whistle, whistle for a pound.

I cannot whistle, mammy, I cannot make a sound.

LITTLE Betty Blue,
Lost her holiday shoe.
What will poor Betty do?
Why, give her another,
To match the other,
And then she will walk in two.

JERRY Hall, he is so small,
A rat could eat him, hat and all.

FRIDAY night's dream, on Saturday told,

Is sure to come true, be it ever so old.

Ring-a-ring-a roses,
A pocket full of posies

RING-a-round-a roses,
A pocket full of posies;
Hush—hush—hush—
We'll all tumble down.

OLD father Grey Beard,
Without tooth or tongue;
If you'll give me your finger,
I'll give you my thumb.

JOCKEY was a piper's son,

And he fell in love when he was young,

And the only tune he could play

Was, "Over the hills and far away";

Over the hills and a great way off,

And the wind will blow my top-knot off.

LOVE your own, kiss your own,

Love your own mother, hinny,

For if she was dead and gone,

You'd ne'er get such another, hinny.

LITTLE Poll Parrot
Sat in her garret,
Eating toast and tea;
A little brown mouse
Jumped into the house,
And stole it all away.

LITTLE Miss Donnet
Wears a huge bonnet;
And hoops half as wide
As the mouth of the Clyde.

DEEDLE, deedle, dumpling, my son John,

Went to bed with his stockings on;

One shoe off, and one shoe on,

Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John.

THERE was an old woman in Surrey,

Who was morn, noon and night in a hurry;

Called her husband a fool,

Drove the children to school,

The worrying old woman of Surrey.

LITTLE Tommy Grace had a pain in his face,

So bad he could not learn a letter;

When in came Dicky Long,

Singing such a funny song,

That Tommy laughed, and found his face much better.

THERE was an old woman had three cows,

Rosy, and Colin, and Dun;

Rosy and Colin were sold at the fair,

And Dun broke his head in a fit of despair;

And there was the end of her three cows,

Rosy, and Colin, and Dun.

RIDE a cock-horse to Shrewsbury cross,

To buy little Johnny a galloping horse:

It trots behind and it ambles before,

And Johnny shall ride—till he can ride no more.

ROSEMARY green, and lavender blue,

Thyme and sweet marjorum, hyssop and rue.

HANDY Spandy, Jack a-dandy,
Loves plum-cake and sugar-candy;
He bought some at a grocer's shop,
And out he came, hop-hop-hop.

THERE was a little girl who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead;
When she was good, she was very, very good,
And when she was bad she was horrid.

THE greedy man is he who sits
And bites bits out of plates,
Or else takes up an almanac
And gobbles all the dates.

ONE, he loves; two, he loves;
Three, he loves, they say;
Four, he loves with all his heart;
Five, he casts away.
Six, he loves; seven, she loves;
Eight, they both love.
Nine, he comes; ten, he tarries;
Eleven, he courts; twelve, he marries.

HUSH, baby, my doll, I pray you, don't cry,
And I'll give you some bread, and some milk by-and-bye;
Or, perhaps, you like custard, or, maybe, a tart,
Then to either you are welcome, with all my heart.

AN old woman lived in Nottingham town,

Who owned a small house, and painted it brown;

And yet this old woman grew crazy with fright,

Lest some one should burn her house in the night.

BRYAN O'Lin and his wife, and wife's mother,

They all went over the bridge together:

The bridge broke down, and they all fell in,—

The deuce go with all! said Bryan O'Lin.

LITTLE Miss Lily, you're dreadfully silly

To wear such a very long skirt:

If you take my advice, you would hold it up nice

And not let it trail in the dirt.

LADY-BUG, lady-bug,
Fly away home,
Your house is on fire,
Your children will burn.

A SWARM of bees in May
Is worth a load of hay;
A swarm of bees in June
Is worth a silver spoon;
A swarm of bees in July
Is not worth a fly.

Curly locks! Curly locks! wilt thou be mine?

Thou shalt not wash dishes, nor yet feed the swine

CURLY locks! Curly locks! wilt thou be mine?

Thou shalt not wash dishes, nor yet feed the swine;

But sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam,

And feed upon strawberries, sugar and cream!

A CAT came fiddling out of a barn.

With a pair of bag-pipes under her arm:

She could sing nothing but fiddle cum fee,

The mouse has married the bumble-bee;

Pipe, cat—dance, mouse,

We'll have a wedding at our good house.

I WON'T be my father's Jack,
I won't be my mother's Jill,
I will be the fiddler's wife,
And have music when I will.
T'other little tune,
T'other little tune,
Prythee, love, play me
T'other little tune.

LITTLE maid, little maid,
Whither goest thou?
Down in the meadow
To milk my cow.

AS the days grow longer
The storms grow stronger.

HICKORY, dickory, sackory down

How many miles to Richmond town?

Turn to the left and turn to the right,

And you may get there by Saturday night.

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;
Thirteen, fourteen, maids a-courting;
Fifteen, sixteen, maids a-kissing;
Seventeen, eighteen, maids a-waiting;
Nineteen, twenty, my stomach's empty.

WEAR you a hat, or wear you a crown,
All that goes up must surely come down.

THERE were two blackbirds
Sitting on a hill.
The one named Jack,
And the other named Jill.
Fly away, Jack!
Fly away, Jill!
Come again, Jack!
Come again, Jill!

BAT, bat, come under my hat,

And I'll give you a slice of bacon;

And when I bake, I'll give you a cake,

If I am not mistaken.

WHAT God never sees, What the King seldom sees, What we see every day: Read my riddle, I pray. [An Equal]	BURNIE bee, burnie bee, Tell me when your wedding be? If it be to-morrow day, Take your wings and fly away.
LAZY Tom, with jacket blue, Stole his father's gouty shoe; The worst of harm we can wish him, Is, his gouty shoe may fit him.	A WATER there is, I must pass, A broader water never was; And yet of all waters I ever did see, To pass over with less jeopardy. [The Dew]

DRAW a pail of water

For my lady's daughter;

My father's a king, and my mother's a queen,

My two little sisters are dressed in green,

Slumping grass and parsley,

Marigold leaves and daisies.

One rush! Two rush!

Pray thee, fine lady, come under my rush.

THE old woman must stand at the tub, tub, tub,

The dirty clothes to rub, rub, rub;

But when they are clean, and fit to be seen,

She'll dress like a lady, and dance on the green.

GEORGEY Porgey, pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry;
When the girls come out to play,
Georgey Porgey runs away.

INTERY, mintery, cutery, corn,
Apple seed, and apple thorn;
Wine, brier, limber lock,
Three geese in a flock,
One flew east, one flew west,
And one flew over the goose's nest.

TIT, tat, toe,
My first go,
Three jolly butcher boys
All in a row;
Stick one up,
Stick one down,
Stick one on the old man's crown.

WEE Willie Winkie
Runs through the town,
Up-stairs and down-stairs,
In his night gown;
Rapping at the window,
Crying at the lock,
"Are the children in their beds,
For now it's ten o'clock?"

Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater,

Had a wife and couldn't keep her

PETER, Peter, pumpkin-eater;
Had a wife, and couldn't keep her;
He put her in a pumpkin shell,
And there he kept her very well.

Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater;
Had another and didn't love her;
Peter learned to read and spell,
And then he loved her very well.

[The following lines are sung by children when
starting for a race]
GOOD horses, bad horses,
What is the time of day?
Three o'clock, four o'clock,
Now fare you away.

[Say quick]

IN fir tar is.

In oak none is.

In mud eel is.

In clay none is.

Goat eat ivy.

Mare eat oats.

BUZ, quoth the blue fly,

Hum, quoth the bee,

Buz and hum they cry,

And so do we:

In his ear, in his nose,

Thus, do you see?

He ate the dormouse,

Else it was me.

WASN'T it funny? hear it all people!

Little Tom Thum has swallowed a steeple!

How did he do it?

I'll tell you, my son:

'Twas made of white sugar—and easily done!

HECTOR Protector was dressed all in green;

Hector Protector was sent to the Queen.

The Queen did not like him,

No more did the King:

So Hector Protector was sent back again.

DONKEY, donkey, old and gray,

Ope your mouth, and gently bray;

Lift your ears and blow your horn,

To wake the world this sleepy morn.

WHEN little Fred went to bed,
He always said his prayers;
He kissed mamma, and then papa,
And straightway went up-stairs.

WHO comes here?
"A grenadier."
What do you want?
"A pot of beer."
Where is your money?
"I've forgot."
Get you gone,
You can't have a drop.

MULTIPLICATION is vexation,

Division is as bad;

The Rule of Three doth puzzle me,

And Fractions drive me mad.

WAS ever heard such noise and clamor!

The hatchet's jealous of the hammer!

[Mind your Punctuation]

I SAW a peacock with a fiery tail,

I saw a blazing comet drop down hail,

I saw a cloud wrapped with ivy round,

I saw an oak creep on the ground,

I saw a snail swallow up a whale,

I saw the sea brimful of ale,

I saw a Venice glass full fifteen feet deep,

I saw a well full of men's tears that weep,

I saw red eyes all of a flaming fire,

I saw a house bigger than the moon and higher,

I saw the sun at twelve o'clock at night,

I saw the man that saw this wondrous sight.

HERE am I, little jumping Joan,
When nobody's with me, I'm always alone.
THERE was a rat, for want of stairs,
Went down a rope to say his prayers.
OH dear, what can the matter be
Johnny's so long at the fair,
He promised to buy me a bunch of blue ribbons
To tie up my bonny brown hair.

THERE was a man in our town,

And he was wondrous wise;

He jumped into a bramble bush,

And scratch'd out both his eyes;

And when he saw his eyes were out,

With all his might and main,

He jump'd into another bush,

And scratch'd them in again.

ELIZABETH, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess,

They all went together to seek a bird's nest.

They found a bird's nest with five eggs in,

They all took one, and left four in.


	THREE Blind Mice, See how they run! They all ran after the farmer's wife, Who cut off their tails with a carving knife; Did ever you hear such a thing in your life As three blind mice?

Rain, rain, go away;

Come again another day

RAIN, rain, go away; Come again another day; Little Johnny wants to play.	AT the siege of Belleisle, I was there all the while, All the while, all the while, At the siege of Belleisle.
CLAP, clap handies, Mammie's wee, wee ain; Clap, clap handies, Daddie's comin' hame, Hame till his bonny wee bit laddie; Clap, clap handies, My wee, wee ain.	TWO little dogs Sat by the fire, Over a fender of coal-dust; Said one little dog To the other little dog, If you don't talk, why, I must.

"COME, let's to bed,"

Says Sleepy-head;

"Tarry a while," says Slow.

"Put on the pot,"

Says the Greedy one,

"Let's sup before we go."

UP at Piccadilly, oh! The coachman takes his stand, And when he meets a pretty girl He takes her by the hand; Whip away forever, oh! Drive away so clever, oh! All the way to Bristol, oh! He drives her four-in-hand.	UP hill and down dale; Butter is made in every vale; And if that Nancy Cook Is a good girl, She shall have a spouse, And make butter anon, Before her old grandmother Grows a young man.
DICKERY, dickery, dock; The mouse ran up the clock; The clock struck One, The mouse ran down, Dickery, dickery, dock.	1, 2, 3, 4, 5! I caught a hare alive 6, 7, 8, 9, 10! I let him go again.

MARY had a little lamb with fleece as white as snow,

And everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go.

It followed her to school one day, that was against the rule.

It made the children laugh and play, to see a lamb at school.

And so the teacher turned it out, but still it lingered near,

And waited patiently about till Mary did appear.

"Why does the lamb love Mary so," the eager children cry,

"Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know!" the teacher did reply.

I LIKE little pussy,
Her coat is so warm,
And if I don't hurt her,
She'll do me no harm;
So I'll not pul

The Little Mother Goose

The
Little Mother Goose

With numerous illustrations in full

color and black and white

By

JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH

A List of the Rhymes

The Little Mother Goose

TheLittle Mother Goose

With numerous illustrations in full color and black and white By

JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH

A List of the Rhymes

The
Little Mother Goose

With numerous illustrations in full

color and black and white

By