SECTION II

MOTHER GOOSE JINGLES AND NURSERY RHYMES

Bibliography 18

Introductory 19

MOTHER GOOSE (Shorter rhymes):

1. A cat came fiddling out of a barn 23

2. A diller, a dollar 23

3. As I was going to St. Ives 23

4. As I was going up Pippen Hill 23

5. As I went to Bonner 23

6. As Tommy Snooks and Bessie Brooks 23

7. A swarm of bees in May 23

8. Baa, baa, black sheep 23

9. Barber, barber, shave a pig 23

10. Birds of a feather flock together 23

11. Bless you, bless you, burnie bee 23

12. Bobby Shafto's gone to sea 24

13. Bow, wow, wow 24

14. Bye, baby bunting 24

15. Come when you're called 24

16. Cross patch 24

17. Curly locks, curly locks 24

18. Dance, little baby 24

19. Diddle, diddle, dumpling 24

20. Ding, dong, bell 24

21. Doctor Foster 24

22. Eggs, butter, cheese, bread 24

23. For every evil under the sun 24

24. Four-and-twenty tailors 25

25. Great A, little a 25

26. Hark, hark 25

27. Here sits the Lord Mayor 25

28. Here we go up, up, up 25

29. Hey! diddle, diddle 25

30. Hickery, dickery, 6 and 7 25

31. Higgledy, Piggledy 25

32. Hickory, dickory, dock 25

33. Hogs in the garden 25

34. Hot-cross buns 26

35. Hub a dub dub 26

36. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall 26

37. If all the sea were one sea 26

38. If all the world was apple-pie 26

39. If I'd as much money as I could spend 26

40. If "ifs" and "ands" 26

41. If wishes were horses 26

42. I had a little pony 26

43. I had a little hobby horse 26

44. I have a little sister 27

45. I'll tell you a story 27

46. In marble walls as white as milk 27

47. I went up one pair of stairs 27

48. Jack and Jill went up the hill 27

49. Jack be nimble 27

50. Jack Sprat could eat no fat 27

51. Knock at the door 27

52. Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home 27

53. Little boy blue, come blow your horn 27

54. Little girl, little girl, where have you been 27

55. Little Jack Horner 28

56. Little Jack Jingle 28

57. Little Johnny Pringle 28

58. Little Miss Muffet 28

59. Little Nancy Etticoat 28

60. Little Robin Redbreast 28

61. Little Tommy Tucker 28

62. Long legs, crooked thighs 28

63. Lucy Locket lost her pocket 28

64. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John 28

65. Mistress Mary, quite contrary 28

66. Multiplication is vexation 28

67. Needles and pins 29

68. Old King Cole 29

69. Once I saw a little bird 29

70. One for the money 29

71. One misty, moisty morning 29

72. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 29

73. One, two 29

74. Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man 29

75. Pease-porridge hot 29

76. Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater 30

77. Peter Piper picked a peck 30

78. Poor old Robinson Crusoe 30

79. Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been 30

80. Pussy sits beside the fire 30

81. Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross 30

82. Ride, baby, ride 30

83. Rock-a-bye, baby 30

84. Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green 30

85. See a pin and pick it up 30

86. See, saw, sacradown 31

87. Shoe the little horse 31

88. Sing a song of sixpence 31

89. Star light, star bright 31

90. The King of France went up the hill 31

91. The lion and the unicorn 31

92. The man in the moon 31

93. The north wind doth blow 31

94. The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts 31

95. There was a crooked man 31

96. There was a little boy went into a barn 32

97. There was a man and he had naught 32

98. There was a man in our town 32

99. There was an old man 32

100. There was an old woman, and what do you think 32

101. There was an old woman lived under a hill 32

102. There was an old woman of Leeds 32

103. There was an old woman of Norwich 32

104. There was an old woman tossed up in a basket 32

105. There was an old woman who lived in a shoe 33

106. There was an owl lived in an oak 33

107. This is the way the ladies ride 33

108. This little pig went to market 33

109. Three blind mice 33

110. Three wise men of Gotham 33

111. To market, to market, to buy a fat pig 33

112. Tom, Tom, the piper's son 33

113. Two-legs sat upon three-legs 33

114. When a twister a-twisting 34

115. "Willy boy, Willy boy, where are you going?" 34

WILHELMINA SEEGMILLER

116. Milkweed Seeds 34

117. An Anniversary 34

118. Twink! twink! 34

MOTHER GOOSE (Longer rhymes)

119. A Was an Apple-Pie 34

120. Tom Thumb's Alphabet 35

121. Where Are You Going 35

122. Molly and I 35

123. London Bridge 36

124. I Saw a Ship 36

125. There Was an Old Woman 36

126. Little Bo-Peep 37

127. Cock a Doodle Doo 37

128. Three Jovial Huntsmen 37

129. There Was a Little Man 37

130. Taffy 38

131. Simple Simon 38

132. A Farmer Went Trotting 38

133. Tom the Piper's Son 38

134. When I Was a Little Boy 39

135. The Babes in the Wood 39

136. The Fox and His Wife 40

137. For Want of a Nail 40

138. A Man of Words 40

139. Jemima 41

140. Mother Hubbard and Her Dog 41

141. The Courtship, Merry Marriage, and Picnic Dinner of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren 42

142. The Burial of Poor Cock Robin 44

143. Dame Wiggins of Lee, and Her Seven Wonderful Cats 45

144. This Is the House That Jack Built 47

145. The Egg in the Nest 49

146. Change About 49