THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN.

There was an old woman

Lived under a hill;

And if she's not gone,

She lives there still.

O, LOOK AT THE MOON!

O, look at the moon,

She is shining up there;

O, mother, she looks

Like a lamp in the air.

Last week she was smaller,

And shaped like a bow,
But now she's grown bigger,
And round like an O.

"LET'S GO TO BED."

"Let's go to bed," says Sleepy-head; "Let's stay awhile," says Slow: "Put on the pot," says Greedy-sot, "We'll sup before we go.'

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PUSSY SITS BEHIND THE LOG.

PEASE-PORRIDGE HOT.

Pease-porridge hot,
Pease-porridge cold,
Pease-porridge in the pot,
Nine days old;

Some like it hot,

Some like it cold,

Some like it in the pot,

Nine days old.

PUSSY SITS BEHIND THE LOG.

Pussy sits behind the log,
How can she be fair?

Then comes in the little dog,
Pussy, are you there?

So, so, dear Mistress Pussy,
Pray tell me how you do.

I thank you kindly, little dog,
I'm very well just now.

EARLY to bed and early to rise,

Is the way to be healthy and wealthy and wise.

ROBIN AND RICHARD.

Robin and Richard were two pretty men;
They lay in bed till the clock struck ten:
Then up starts Robin and looks at the sky,
O, brother Richard! the sun's very high.
You go first with bottle and bag,
And I'll come after on little Jack Nag.

THERE WAS A LITTLE MAN.

There was a little man,

And he had a little gun,

And his bullets were made of lead, lead, lead;
He went to a brook,

And fired at a duck,

And shot him right through the head, head, head.

He carried it home

To his old wife Joan,

And bade her a fire for to make, make, make; To roast the little duck,

He'd shot in the brook,

And he'd go fetch her the drake, drake, drake.

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BOW, WOW, wow.

I SAW A SHIP A-SAILING.

I saw a ship a-sailing,
A-sailing on the sea,

And, oh! it was all laden

With pretty things for thee!

There were comfits in the cabin,
And apples in the hold;

The sails were made of silk,

And the masts were made of gold.

The four-and-twenty sailors

That stood between the decks,
Were four-and-twenty white mice,
With chains about their necks.

The captain was a duck,

With a packet on his back;

And when the ship began to move,

The captain said, "Quack! Quack!"

BOW, WOW, WOW.

Bow, wow, wow,

Whose dog art thou?

Little Tom Tinker's dog,

Bow, wow, wow.

HARK, HARK! BOW-WOW.

Hark, hark!

Bow-wow.

The watch-dogs bark:

Bow-wow.

Hark, hark! I hear

The strain of strutting chanticleer
Cry, cock-a-doodle-doo.

LITTLE JOHNNY PRINGLE.

Little Johnny Pringle had a little Pig,
It was very little, so was not very big.
As it was playing beneath the shed,
In half a minute poor Piggy was dead.

So Johnny Pringle he sat down and cried,
And Betty Pringle she lay down and died.
There is the history of one, two, and three,
Johnny Pringle, Betty Pringle, and Piggy Wiggie.

HOGS IN THE GARDEN.

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