The Spanish nursery seems richer in rhymes than ours. Nurse bends Baby's left hand into a rose-leaf purse, for example, and gives it little taps with one finger after another of Baby's right hand, singing:—
"A penny for Baby's purse
From papa, mama, and nurse.
A penny, a penny to pay!
Let no thief steal it away!"
And then the tiny fist is doubled tight.
When the child, again, is first dressed in short clothes, he is propped up in a corner and coaxed to take his first step with the rhyme:—
"One little step, Baby-boy mine!
Come, Little Man, step up!
And thou shalt have a taste of wine