Essentially a book about children and their picturesque and innocent, though often apparently meaningless, frolics, by the young in the land, I am assured, it will be received with open arms. From the "children of larger growth"—those who were once young and have delight in remembering the fact—the welcome, if less boisterous, should be not less sincere. Commend to me on all occasions the man or woman who, "with lyart haffets thin and bare," can sing with the poet—

"Och hey! gin I were young again, Ochone! gin I were young again; For chasin' bumbees owre the plain Is just an auld sang sung again."

ROBERT FORD.

287 Onslow Drive,
Dennistoun,
Glasgow.

CONTENTS.

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[Rhymes of the Nursery], 9
[Counting-out Rhymes], 38
[Children's Rhyme-Games], 55
"[Merry-ma-Tanzie]," 56
"[The Mulberry Bush]," 57
"[A Dis, a Dis, a Green Grass]," 58
"[Looby-Looby]," 59
"[I Dree I Droppit it]," 60
"[Bab at the Bowster]," 61
"[The Wadds]," 63
"[The Wadds and the Wears]," 65
"[The Widow of Babylon]," 68
"[London Bridge]," 69
"[The Jolly Miller,]" 70
"[Willie Wastle]," 70
"[Oats and Beans and Barley]," 71
"[Hornie Holes]," 72
"[The Craw]," 73
"[Neevie-neevie-nick-nack]," 73
"[Blind Man's Buff]," 74
"[Water Wallflower]," 75
"[The Emperor Napoleon]," 75
"[A' the Birdies i' the Air]," 76
"[Through the Needle-e'e, Boys]," 76
"[King Henry]," 77
"[The Blue Bird]," 78
"[When I was a Young Thing]," 78
"[Carry my Lady to London]," 79
"[A, B, C]," 80
"[My Theerie and my Thorie]," 80
"[Glasgow Ships]," 81
"[Airlie's Green]," 83
"[Het Rowes and Butter Cakes]," 83
"[Queen Mary]," 84
"[Whuppity Scoorie]," 85
"[Hinkumbooby]," 85
"[Three Brethren come from Spain]," 87
"[Here Comes a Poor Sailor from Botany Bay]," 90
"[Janet Jo]," 91
"[The Goloshans]," 94
[Children's Songs and Ballads],101
[Cock Robin], 101
[The Marriage of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren], 104
[The North Wind], 109
[Little Bo-Peep], 110
[The House that Jack Built], 111
[Simple Simon], 114
[Old Mother Hubbard], 114
[Old Mother Goose], 115
[The Old Woman and her Pig], 117
[A Frog he would a-wooing go], 122
[The Carrion Crow], 126
[My Pretty Maid], 127
[Can ye Sew Cushions?] 127
[Hush-a-ba Birdie, Croon], 129
[Dance to your Daddie], 129
[Katie Beardie], 132
[The Miller's Dochter], 133
[Hap and Row], 133
[How Dan, Dilly Dow], 134
[Crowdie], 135
[Whistle, whistle, Auld Wife], 136
[The Three Little Pigs], 137
[Cowe the Nettle early], 138
[The Wren's Nest], 140
[Robin Redbreast's Testament], 141
[Children's Humour and Quaint Sayings], 143
[Schoolroom Facts and Fancies], 163
[Children's Stories], 182
[Blue Beard], 184
[Jack and the Bean-Stalk], 191
[The Babes in the Wood], 205
[Jack the Giant Killer], 210
[Little Red Riding Hood], 229
[Cinderella; or, the Little Glass Slipper], 233
[Puss in Boots], 243
[Whittington and his Cat], 249
[Beauty and the Beast], 259
[The Sleeping Beauty], 274


RHYMES OF THE NURSERY.