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... mouse , For of both we have more than enough , She shan't stay to live in my house . " The lady at this declaration , Almost fainted away with pain ; But what was her sad consternation , When a sweet little girl came again . She sent ...
... mouse , For of both we have more than enough , She shan't stay to live in my house . " The lady at this declaration , Almost fainted away with pain ; But what was her sad consternation , When a sweet little girl came again . She sent ...
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... He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile : He bought a crooked cat , which caught a crooked mouse , And they all lived together in a little crooked house . XLVII . LITTLE blue Betty lived in a den , 3 § TALES . 29.
... He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile : He bought a crooked cat , which caught a crooked mouse , And they all lived together in a little crooked house . XLVII . LITTLE blue Betty lived in a den , 3 § TALES . 29.
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... mouse , ' as appears from the books of the Stationers ' Company , quoted in Warton's Hist . Engl . Poet . , ed . 1840 , vol . iii , p . 360. ] THERE was a frog liv'd in a well , Kitty alone , Kitty alone , There was a frog liv'd in a ...
... mouse , ' as appears from the books of the Stationers ' Company , quoted in Warton's Hist . Engl . Poet . , ed . 1840 , vol . iii , p . 360. ] THERE was a frog liv'd in a well , Kitty alone , Kitty alone , There was a frog liv'd in a ...
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... Mouse hall , And there he did both knock and call , Cock me cary , & c . Quoth he , Miss Mouse , I'm come to thee , Kitty alone , & c . Quoth he , Miss Mouse , I'm come to thee , To see if thou canst fancy me , Cock me cary , & c ...
... Mouse hall , And there he did both knock and call , Cock me cary , & c . Quoth he , Miss Mouse , I'm come to thee , Kitty alone , & c . Quoth he , Miss Mouse , I'm come to thee , To see if thou canst fancy me , Cock me cary , & c ...
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... thing she was , in my chimney corner sat : With my , & c . I sold my cat , and bought me a mouse ; He carried fire in his tail , and burnt down my house : With my , & c . CXX . LITTLE BO - peep has lost her sheep 68 NURSERY RHYMES .
... thing she was , in my chimney corner sat : With my , & c . I sold my cat , and bought me a mouse ; He carried fire in his tail , and burnt down my house : With my , & c . CXX . LITTLE BO - peep has lost her sheep 68 NURSERY RHYMES .
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apple baby ball bawbie baps birds bought carrion crow Catskin Catskin robe Cock me cary dame Dance o'er daughter dead dear ding DOCTOR Foster e-oh eggs fat tripe father fiddle flew frog gay lady girl goose head heart heigh JACK SPRAT John John Ball John Crowder Johnny jump'd king king of France kiss Kitty lady lee legs lived lol de riddle Lond lord maid mammy married merry milk mouse never night nose nursery o'er my lady old razor old woman PAT-A-CAKE play poor Pray pretty queen Quoth rhyme ride ring Robert of Gloucester Robin Hood round Say the bells shoe shot Simple Simon sing SOLOMON GRUNDY stick stole Taffy tail tell thee There's thou Thumb Tidy Tom Thumb took toone town tree twine wash whistle wife wood Wooley Foster
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Page 1 - Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he: He called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three.
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Page 76 - 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 going to St. Ives?
Page 204 - Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.
Page 69 - Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them; Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.
Page 64 - THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW he north wind doth blow, And we shall have snow, And what will poor Robin do then, Poor thing? He'll sit in a barn, And keep himself warm, And hide his head under his wing, Poor thing.
Page 32 - OLD Mother Goose, when She wanted to wander, Would ride through the air On a very fine gander. Mother Goose had a house, 'Twas built in a wood, Where an owl at the door For sentinel stood.
Page 177 - THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT This is the farmer sowing his corn, That kept the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.