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Elfin Jack[1]
The Mayor of Scuttleton[4]
Fire in the Window[4]
Cousin Jeremy[5]
Thinking Aloud[6]
"Bye, Baby, Night is Come"[8]
Snow[9]
Oh, where are all the Good Little Girls?[9]
Christmas Bells[10]
My Laddie[12]
March[12]

GARDEN SONGS.
Little Green Hummer[14]
Gluck! Gluck![15]
A Lad of Nansook, a Balsam-pod took[16]
I'd search the World over, for one Four-leaved Clover[16]
Find me a Stem of the Tiger Lily[17]
Good Mistress Sundial[18]
Some One in the Garden[18]
Wire-locks, Curly-pate, Tangle, and Floss[18]
Old Bum of Bumbleby[19]
Under the Willow, out of the Rain[19]
Little Polly always Clever[20]
Lift up your Face, Little Daisy![21]
I know where there's a Beautiful Shoe[22]
Hobbledy Hops[23]
Bright Little Buttercup[24]
The Ants[25]
Burs[26]
Hollyhock, Hollyhock, bend for Me![27]
The Evening Primrose[28]
Ho, Dandelion! My Lightsome Fellow![28]
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Song of Summer[29]
Little Beginnings[30]
Mooney and Blacky[31]
The Moon came late to a Lonesome Bog[32]
Johnny the Stout[32]
A Farmer in Bungleton had a Colt[34]
The Drinking-Pan[35]
The Shrewd Lad of Cooloo[36]
There was a Fine Youth of Pike's Peak[36]
Stocking Song on Christmas Eve[37]
In Trust[38]
A Song of St. Nicholas[39]
Flowers[41]
The Little Mother[43]
Among the Animals[44]
Old Doctor Paff[45]
The Little Girl who wouldn't eat Crusts[46]
Poor Little Toddlekins[47]
Song of the Ducks[49]
That's What We'd Do[50]
Little Pipkin[52]
An April Maiden[52]
There's a Fragrance in the Blossom[53]
Wake up, Birdie![54]
The Difference (Three Old Ladies)[55]
Billy Boy[58]
Shepherd John[60]
My Week[62]
Baby in Dreamland[64]
Thanksgiving[66]
Birdie's Birthday[68]
The Star Family[69]
As I was Going[70]
Two Little Froggies[70]
One and One[72]
Birdies with Broken Wings[73]
Willie's Lodger[74]
Four Little Piggies bound for a Frolic[76]
Spinning your Top[76]
Good Morning![78]
Lady Bird and Daddy Longlegs[79]
Wouldn't and Would[80]
Nell and Her Bird[82]
There was an Old Weather-vane[84]
Dumpy Dicky[84]
Have You heard the News, Good Neighbor?[85]
The New Slate[87]
Little Pot soon hot[89]
Nell's Notions[90]
Never a Night so Dark and Drear[91]
Snow, Snow, Everywhere[92]
Some One we cannot hear[93]
A Stranger in the Pew[93]
The Queen o' May[96]
Pussy's Class[98]
Twistan, Turnem, let me See[100]
Wandering Joe[100]
Whether Fair, Whether Foul[101]
The Rats[102]
In the Wood[106]
Comb Music[108]
In the Basket[110]
Coming[110]
The Dainty Miss Rose[112]
Poor Little Mousie[115]
Waiting for Father[117]
What Shall I Buy?[118]
Rut-a-tut-tuts[119]
Halloo, Old Scuttle, Where's your Coal?[120]
Oh No![120]
The Sandman[122]
Trouble in the Greenhouse[125]
Ten Kinds[126]
Have You Apples, Good Grocer?[127]
The Old Woman of Wigg[128]
The Brave Knight of Lorraine[128]
The Old Doctor of Brille[129]
Fairy Tales[130]
Old Can an' Must[133]
Motherless[133]
Old Simon[137]
The Little Mote[138]
When I was Little[138]
What makes Baby Brave and Bright?[139]
The Alphabet[140]
Early to Bed and Early to Rise[142]
The Cook's Little Boy[142]
Harry[144]
Three Ways[145]
Tom of Clapham[146]
What they Say[146]
One Step, Two Step[147]
Melons[148]
How many Things in My Pocket?[150]
The Gallant Outriders[151]
Busy Bee! Busy Bee![153]
Dobbin's Friend[155]
The Way to Do it[156]
Willy and His Pipe[158]
I Had a Little Scotchman[160]
Trottery, Trottery[161]
Lazy Lou[161]
Up in the Morning early[162]
Pins in the Carpet, Tacks in the Floor[162]
If Pussy were made of Leather[163]
Be Careful[164]
Farm Lessons[165]
Out of the Ground[166]
Poor Crow![170]
The Wooden Horse[171]
Tinker, come bring your Solder[173]
There was a Rare Boy[173]
Taking Time to Grow[174]
The Naughty Boy[176]
Little Miss Limberkin[178]
The Frog who wouldn't a Wooing Go[179]
The Stubborn Boot[190]
The Little Dutchman[192]
A Birthday[193]
The Pig and the Lark[196]
The Well-meaning Frog[196]
The Frost King[199]
After the Winter[201]
Little Whimpy[204]
Night and Day[206]
At the Window[206]
Out of the Shell[208]
Bees in the Manger[209]
Baby Nell[209]
Lemons for Molly[210]
Jamie's Troubles[210]
Jean and Kitty[211]
Doggie's Tricks[212]
A Song for Bertie[214]
A Common Mistake[214]
Little Minnie Stowe[215]
Letting the Old Cat Die[216]
What shall we take to Boston?[219]
Washing Day[220]
Trotty Malone[222]
Don't Trust Chatter[222]
Red and White[223]
The Third of July[227]
When I am Big[229]
Wind for the Tree Top[229]
Here are Plenty of Shells[229]
Little Bell Dreer and the Dish-cover[230]
Master Tremble's Adventure[232]
Hark! My Children[235]
The Kitten Picture[236]
Some are Starving[237]
The Terrible Ball[238]
A Birthday Rhyme[243]
The Girl Across the Way[245]
Willie[247]
If Cows wore Satin Slippers[250]
Bumble Bramble[250]
Nobody near Him, all in the Dark[250]
Oh No, 'Tisn't So[251]
The Sun and the Stars[251]
Learning to Pray[254]
Benny's Buttons[256]
What was the Moon a-spying?[257]
A Nursery Rhyme for Big Folks[257]
Fire Flies[259]
Fulfillment[261]
Resolution[262]
How the New Year Came[264]
The Wind and the Moon[268]
Children's Hymn[270]

RHYMES AND JINGLES.

ELFIN JACK, THE GIANT-KILLER.

Do not think the story
Of the giant-killer's glory
Is known and cherished only by yourselves,
O, my dears;

For his deeds so daring,
And his trick of scaring
All his foes, are quite familiar to the elves,
It appears.
In the starlight, tender—
In the moonlight's splendor
Do they gather and recount every deed,
It is said;
How he met a hornet,
Who was playing on a cornet,
Out of tune; and he slew him with a reed,—
Slew him dead!
How, growing ever bolder,
With his reed upon his shoulder,
And an acorn-shield upon his little arm
Well equipped—
He sought a mighty giant,
Who was known as "Worm, the pliant,"
And after giving battle, fierce and warm,
Left him whipped.
How he saw a spider
With her victim, dead, inside her,
Told her, in a voice of fury, to begone
From his sight;
How he killed her when she'd risen
To her cruel, fatal prison,
And nobly freed her captives, so forlorn,—
Gallant knight!
Ah, but the elves are proudest,
And ring his praises loudest,
When telling of a snail, grim and hoary,
In his mail.
With those fearful horns before him,
Jack gallantly upbore him,
And killed him with a thrust (to his glory)
In the tail!

List in the starlight, tender,—
List in the moonlight's splendor,—
For a whirring, like hurrahing, in the glen,
Far and near.
'Tis the elves who, looking back
To their giant-killer, Jack,
Tell his story to each other, funny men!
With a cheer.