 | Geoffrey Buckwalter - Readers - 1905 - 136 pages
...at sea. — ROBERT Louis STEVENSON. Wasrit tkat a cJ&mjy Jifk ./E sctLf cre SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Hidden in a pie ; When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Was not that a dainty dish To set... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker - Readers - 1906 - 162 pages
...lied died rye parlor SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE twenty blackbirds clothes nipped counting-house dainty Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye •...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... | |
 | Katherine Devereux Blake, Georgia Alexander - Children's poetry - 1906 - 104 pages
...Four-and-twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie ; 10 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, is Counting out his money ; The queen was in the parlor, Eating bread and honey ; The maid was in the... | |
 | Lina Eckenstein - Comparative literature - 1906 - 248 pages
...twenty blackbirds baked in a pye And when the pye was open'd, the birds began to sing ; Was not this a dainty dish to set before the king ? The king was in his parlour counting out his money, The queen was in the kitchen eating bread and honey, The maid was in... | |
 | William Thomas Fernie - Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric - 1907 - 518 pages
...to but few children, young, or old, who have conned the lines by heart almost from their cradle. " Sing a song of sixpence ; A pocket full of rye ; Four...the pie was opened, The birds began to sing ; Wasn't it a dainty dish To set before the King ? The King was in his counting-house, Counting out his money... | |
 | Leon Josiah Richardson - Latin language - 1907 - 88 pages
...rhythmical divisions, the effect in reading is a kind of " sing-song." Mother Goose abounds in examples : Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye ; Four...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... | |
 | Porter Lander MacClintock - Literature - 1907 - 328 pages
...rhyme, but of course it is the regular terminal rhyme that most children notice and enjoy and remember. Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. all the children will rejoice in rye — pie. But there will be some to whom sing — song — sixpence... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - Children's poetry - 1907 - 276 pages
...handkerchief, To wipe his little nose. r 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... | |
 | Marion Florence Lansing - English language - 1907 - 200 pages
...my dear; And, if it's well sung, 'Twill be charming to hear.' 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 the counting-house, Counting out... | |
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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? 
