Mother Goose for Grown-ups

by Guy Wetmore Carryl

The trivial charm of rhymes like these

Shall serve to link us twain

An instant in the olden spell

That once we knew and loved so well,

I have not worked in vain!

NOTE

I have pleasure in acknowledging the courteous permission of the editors to reprint in this form such of the following verses as were originally published in Harper's Magazine, the Saturday Evening Post, and the London Sketch.

G. W. C.

CONTENTS

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The Admirable Assertiveness of Jilted Jack	[3]
The Blatant Brutality of Little Bow Peep	[9]
The Commendable Castigation of Old Mother Hubbard	[15]
The Discouraging Discovery of Little Jack Horner	[21]
The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet	[27]
The Fearful Finale of the Irascible Mouse	[33]
The Gastronomic Guile of Simple Simon	[39]
The Harmonious Heedlessness of Little Boy Blue	[47]
The Inexcusable Improbity of Tom, the Piper's Son	[53]
The Judicious Judgment of Quite Contrary Mary	[59]
The Linguistic Languor of Charles Augustus Sprague	[65]
The Mysterious Misapprehension Concerning a Man in Our Town	[71]
The Opportune Overthrow of Humpty Dumpty	[77]
The Preposterous Performance of an Old Lady of Banbury	[83]
The Quixotic Quest of Three Blind Mice	[89]
The Remarkable Regimen of the Sprat Family	[95]
The Singular Sangfroid of Baby Bunting	[101]
The Touching Tenderness of King Karl the First	[107]
The Unusual Ubiquity of the Inquisitive Gander	[113]