Mother Goose for Grown Folks: A Christmas ReadingCarleton, 1864 - 111 pàgines |
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Mother Goose for Grown Folks: A Christmas Reading Adeline Dutton Train Whitney Visualització completa - 1867 |
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66 SIMILIA SIMILIBUS aspirant writing BANBURY CROSS baste the mutton Beggars Bessy Brooks BIG SHOE BLACK SHEEP black spider BLACKBIRDS BO-PEEP bowl caught Christmas Pie COBWEBS AND BROOMS Comes commotion would stop CRADLED IN GREEN DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY dainty fingers Dame dish doth duties might choose earth eyes fancy fingers their duties forsooth fresh gift of childhood glory goodly flock hath heaven heel hint HOBBY-HORSES Hope HUMPTY DUMPTY JACK HORNER JINGLING AND JANGLING Leg over leg Life's LITTLE BOY BLUE Little Jack lived MAD HORSE Mother Goose mountains old woman pasty peck of pickle peep peppers Peter Piper Peter Piper picked pickle peppers Peter plain poor RAGS AND ROBES restless unit ring sago Shakspeare side sing Solomon Grundy somehow song soul statesman attained tell thing thought Tommy Snooks truth tuffet twist TWISTER unit that moves untwist VICTUALS AND DRINK whey WOMAN OF SURREY wonder Youth
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Pàgina 13 - Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!
Pàgina 23 - THREE wise men of Gotham Went to sea in a bowl; If the bowl had been stronger, My song had been longer.
Pàgina 102 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.
Pàgina 52 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie; When the pie was opened, The birds began. to sing; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king? The king was in his counting-house Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlor Eating bread and honey...
Pàgina 30 - There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise, He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. And when he saw his eyes were out, With all his might and main He jumped into another bush And scratched them in again.
Pàgina 70 - There was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, And yet this old woman would never be quiet.
Pàgina 65 - There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children she didn't know what to do.
Pàgina 34 - I lent him to a lady, To ride a mile away ; She whipped him, she slashed him, She rode him through the mire ; I would not lend my pony now For all the lady's hire.
Pàgina 103 - ... superfluous babies be carried? Where would be the good aunts that should knit all the stockings? Or nurses, to do up the singings and rockings? Wise spinsters, to lay down their wonderful rules, And with theories rare to enlighten the fools, — Or to look after orphans, and primary schools? No! Failure's a part of the infinite plan; Who finds that he can't, must give way to who can; And as one and another drops out of the race.
Pàgina 76 - Nineteen times as high as the moon. Where she was going I couldn't but ask it, For in her hand she carried a broom. "Old woman, old woman, old woman," said I, "O whither, O whither, O whither so high?