for Children, or SONGS FOR THE NURSERY WITH Notes, music, and an Account of the Goose or Uergoose Family AND WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HENRY L. STEPHENS AND GASTON FAY “UNCONSIDERED TRIFLES." - Shakespeare NEW YORK 1869 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by HURD AND HOUGHTON, in the Clerk's Ottice of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE : STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. 0. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. To JOHN FLEET ELIOT, THE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDSON OF ELIZABETH GOOSE, KNOWN WHEREVER THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS SPOKEN AS MOTHER GOOSE, This Collection of her Melodies IS INSCRIBED, AS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS KINDNESS IN SUPPLYING THE MATERIALS FROM WHICH THE ACCOUNT OF HIS AND HER FAMILY HAS BEEN DERIVED. |