CONTENTS.
ALPHABET Mother Goose
A DEWDROP Frank Dempster Sherman
BEES Frank Dempster Sherman
RHYMES.
Baa, baa, black sheep
Bless you, bless you, burnie bee
Bow, wow, wow
Bye, baby bunting Mother Goose
STAR LIGHT Unknown
THE LITTLE MOON A.B. White
TO A HONEY-BEE Alice Gary
RHYMES.
A cat came fiddling
A dillar, a dollar
As I was going to St. Ives
As I was going up Pippen Hill
A swarm of bees in May Mother Goose
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
NONSENSE ALPHABET Edward Lear
THE EGG IN THE NEST Unknown
RHYMES
Hey! diddle diddle
Pussy sits beside the fire
Ding dong bell Mother Goose
DAISIES Frank Dempster Sherman
SPINNING TOP Frank Dempster Sherman
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
RHYMES.
Bobby Shafto's gone to sea
Every lady in this land
Great A, little a
Hark, hark
Sing a song of sixpence
Hickory, dickory dock
Hot-cross buns!
How does my lady's garden grow?
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top
Some little mice sat in a barn to spin
If all the world were apple-pie
If wishes were horses
I have a little sister Mother Goose
WHO STOLE THE BIRD'S NEST? Lydia Maria Child
RHYMES.
I saw a ship a-sailing
Jack and Jill went up the hill
Little Bo-peep
Little boy blue
Little girl, little girl
Little Jack Horner sat in the corner
Little Johnny Pringle had a little pig
Little Miss Muffet
There was a little man
Little Tommy Tacker Mother Goose
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
HAPPY THOUGHT Robert Louis Stevenson
THE SUN'S TRAVELS Robert Louis Stevenson
MY BED IS A BOAT Robert Louis Stevenson
THE SWING Robert Louis Stevenson
RHYMES
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
Mistress Mary, quite contrary
Old King Cole
Old Mother Hubbard Mother Goose
RUNAWAY BROOK Eliza Lee Fallen
BED IN SUMMER Robert Louis Stevenson
AT THE SEASIDE Robert Louis Stevenson
THE MEETING OF THE SHIPS Thomas Moore
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
Three little kittens
Once I saw a little bird
One misty, moisty morning
Peter Piper
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross
Three wise men of Gotham
See, saw, sacradown
Simple Simon met a pieman Mother Goose
PRETTY COW Jane Taylor
THE STAR Jane Taylor
MARY'S LAMB Sara Josepha Hale
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
RHYMES
Solomon Grundy
The King of France
The man in the wilderness
There was a crooked man
Tom, Tom, the piper's son
There was a little boy
There was a man of our town
This pig went to market
Tom, Tom, of Islington Mother Goose
WEE WILLIE WINKIE William Miller
SINGING Robert Louis Stevenson
THE COW Robert Louis Stevenson
GOOD-NIGHT AND GOOD-MORNING Richard Monckton Milnes
MOTHER'S EYES Mary D.B.Hull
THE LAND OF NOD Robert Louis Stevenson
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
RHYMES
When I was a little boy
Where are you going, my pretty maid?
Who killed Cock Robin Mother Goose
EPITAPH FOR ROBIN REDBREAST Edith Matilda Thomas
PLAY WITH ME Edith Matilda Thomas
THE PIPER William Blake
INFANT JOY William Blake
THE LAMB William Blake
THE LITTLE BOY LOST William Blake
THE LITTLE BOY FOUND William Blake
ON THE VOWELS Jonathan Swift
LETTERS Ralph Waldo Emerson
ON A CIRCLE Jonathan Swift
ARIEL'S SONG William Shakespeare
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
SONG Thomas Hood
YOUTH AND AGE Thomas Hood
UPON SUSANNA'S FEET Robert Herrick
UPON A CHILD THAT DIED Robert Herrick
CHERRY-RIPE Robert Herrick
ANSWER TO A CHILD'S QUESTION Samuel Taylor Coleridge
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
"ONE, TWO, THREE!" Henry Cuyler Bunner
THE BIRD AND ITS NEST Alfred Tennyson
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
WINDY NIGHTS Robert Louis Stevenson
NONSENSE VERSES Edward Lear
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
SONG Robert Burns
SWEET AND LOW Alfred Tennyson
AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF Isaac Watts
"BREAK, BREAK, BREAK" Alfred Tennyson
THE ARROW AND THE SONG Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
THE TABLE AND THE CHAIR Edward Lear
THE OWL Alfred Tennyson
THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT Edward Lear
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
FABLE Ralph Waldo Emerson
WRITTEN IN MARCH William Wordsworth
THOSE EVENING BELLS Thomas Moore
TO A BUTTERFLY William Wordsworth
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
LUCY William Wordsworth
LUCY GRAY, OR SOLITUDE William Wordsworth
POOR SUSAN William Wordsworth