The merrie heart, a collection of favourite nursery rhymes, by M.E.G. |
Common terms and phrases
axe to reap barn gillie beat dog berries bite kid bite pig bonnie bush burn staff carol and carries Cassell's Christmas My mother Cloth gilt CUCKOO day of Christmas deer to swim dog to run eating my share fcap five gold rings FLY AWAY HOME four canary birds frog gae sing gilt edges Illustrations keep my house king sent Kitty lady lee lay on Meenachug learns my carol LOUIS FIGUIER maid Moorachug morocco mother sent OLD KING COLE old woman ower papingo-aye pear-tree PEASE PORRIDGE HOT pull my bonnie pussie cat Rat won't reap rod rod to lay rope sent his lady seven swans share of fruit Simple Simon smooth axe SOLOMON GRUNDY stone to smooth strike dog swim water thee thou gettest three French hens Three goldspinks three partridges Three plovers three starlings thy news to-day turtle-doves Voorachai water to wet wet stone What's thy Yule day
Popular passages
Page 69 - Star. TWINKLE, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are ! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
Page 31 - 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.
Page 211 - ... laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast, And everything else is still.
Page 177 - I'll tell thee, Little Lamb, I'll tell thee, He is called by thy name, For he calls himself a Lamb.
Page 58 - THREE BLIND MICE Three blind mice! See how they run! They all ran after the farmer's wife, Who cut off their tails with a carving knife. Did you ever see such a thing in your life As three blind mice?
Page 32 - That lay in the house that Jack built. This is 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.
Page 214 - FOR every evil under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none. If there be one, try and find it; If there be none, never mind it.
Page 104 - I," said the Sparrow, "With my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin." Who saw him die? "I," said the Fly, "With my little eye, I saw him die.
Page 113 - 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.