CHAPTER VI
Jingles, Fables, and Folk-Lore
The first stories told to a child are almost invariably the Mother Goose rhymes and jingles, beginning perhaps with:
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man!
So I will, master, as fast as I can:
Pat it, and prick it, and mark it with T,
And toss in the oven for Tommy and me.
Or this, from the Chinese Mother Goose (Fleming H. Revell Company):
Pat, pat,
A swallow’s nest we’ll make,