Lays of Ancient Babyland / to which are added Small Divers Histories not known to the Ancients
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Lays of Ancient Babyland
to which are added
divers small Histories
not known to the Ancients .
Lays of Ancient Babyland
to which are added DIVERS SMALL HISTORIES not known to the ANCIENTS Dedicated, with much respect, but without permission, to the BABIES OF ENGLAND
LONDON BASIL M. PICKERING, 196, PICCADILLY 1857
TO AUGUSTA MARY, for whose amusement the following stories were from time to time written, THIS LITTLE VOLUME, in which they are now collected, is inscribed for a memorial of the happy days of her earliest childhood.
Richard Trott Fisher
Lays of Ancient Babyland
CONTENTS.
Whittington and his Cat.
PART II.
PART III.
THE THREE WISHES.
The Three Wishes.
LITTLE RED-RIDING-HOOD
Little Red-riding-hood.
JACK THE GIANT-KILLER.
Jack the Giant-killer.
PART II.
DIVERS SMALL HISTORIES,
The Vain Mouse.
Cock Robin and Jenny Wren.
The Proud Eagle.
Young Lumpkin’s Hyæna.
M. P. or The Magpie.