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The Little Mother Goose
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_Hush-a-by, baby, on the treetop When the wind blows the cradle will rock_]
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The Little Mother Goose
With numerous illustrations in full
color and black and white
By
JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH
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_
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_A List of the Rhymes_
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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_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.
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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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.
Here stands a post,-- Who put it there? A better man than you: Touch it if you dare?
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.
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! So merrily trip and go!
Sing, sing!--What shall I sing? The cat's run away with the pudding-bag string!
Great A, little A, This is pancake day; Toss the ball high, Throw the ball low, Those that come after May sing Heigh-ho!
Jack Sprat Had a cat, It had but one ear; It went to buy butter When butter was dear.
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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_.
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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.
"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."
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.
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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]
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_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]
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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Lucy Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it: Not a penny in it, But a ribbon 'round it.
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