Transcriber’s Note: Table of Contents added. Where the poem is unnamed, the first line has been used and noted in italics.
AUNT KITTY’S
STORIES.
175 Illustrations.
CONTENTS
[Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep]
[Hickety, pickety, my black hen]
[Dickery, dickery, dare]
[Driddlety drum, driddlety drum]
[A little pig found a fifty dollar note]
[This is the way the ladies go]
[THE MARRIAGE OF COCK ROBIN AND JENNY WREN]
[A carrion crow sat on an oak]
[What a pretty bunch of flowers]
[This goose got in the house]
[THE ROBIN IN WINTER]
[FOUR LITTLE BOYS]
[THE LITTLE FISH THAT WOULD NOT DO AS IT WAS BID]
[THOUGHTLESS JULIA]
[YOUNG SOLDIERS]
[LEARNING BY HEART]
[IMPROVEMENT]
[THE LITTLE COWARD]
[IDLE CHILDREN]
[THE LITTLE GIRL THAT BEAT HER SISTER]
[A VERY GOOD BOY]
[THE PLUM CAKE]
[THE GIDDY GIRL]
[THE FLOWER AND THE LITTLE MISS]
[THE KITE]
[Simple Simon met a pieman]
[I had a little hobby horse]
[He that would thrive]
[Tom, Tom, the piper’s son]
[A Farmer went trotting upon his grey mare]
[Old woman, old woman, shall we go a-shearing?]
[Little Tommy Tittlemouse]
[Little Miss Muffett]
[Eggs, butter, cheese, bread]
[Rain, rain]
[Tom he was a Pi-per’s son]
[I had a little dog, they called him Buff]
[Molly, my sister, and I fell out]
[Solomon Grundy]
[Handy Spandy, Jack a-dandy]
[Go to bed Tom, go to bed Tom]
[Mary had a pretty bird]
[Lit-tle boy blue, come blow your horn]
[I had a lit-tle po-ny]
[Pe-ter White]
[See, see. What shall I see?]
[I had a little hen, the prettiest ever seen]
[Ride a cock horse]
[Pus-sy cat ate the dump-lings, the dump-lings]
[I have a lit-tle sister; they call her Peep, Peep]
[This lit-tle pig went to mar-ket]
[One misty, moisty morning]
[Father Short came down the lane]
[There was an old woman had three sons]
[Hink, minx! the old witch winks]
[CLIMBING ON BACKS OF CHAIRS]
[THE SQUIRREL]
[THE SHEEP]
[A PRESENT FOR ALFRED]
[THE FAIRING]
[THE GOOD BOY]
[MISS SOPHIA]
[PRETTY PUSS]
[POLITENESS]
[MAMA, HOW HAPPY I CAN BE]
[A FINE THING]
[SLEEPY TOM]
[SANDY]
[THE CARE OF BIRDS]
[WILLIE WINKIE]
[COME WHEN YOU ARE CALLED]
[DOG POMPEY]
[MISS PEGGY]
[THE BIRD]
[THE SETTING SUN]
[GOOD MAMA]
[GOOD LITTLE FRED]
[THE DIZZY GIRL]
[NEAT LITTLE CLARA]
[HINTY, MINTY]
[Come here, my bonnie]
[CARELESS MARIA]
[THE PARROT]
[WHY EMMA IS LOVED]
[THE GOOD SCHOLAR]
[NAUGHTY SAM]
[Two legs sat upon three legs]
[As I was going up primrose Hill]
[There was an old man of Tobago]
[Pease pudding hot]
[When I was a ba-che-lor, I liv-ed by my-self]
[To market, to market, to buy a fat pig]
[Jacky, come give me thy fiddle]
[Old King Cole]
[High diddle doubt, my candle’s out]
[Bat, bat, come under my hat]
[I’ll tell you story]
[My little old man and I fell out]
[Little Tommy Grace]
[Pus-sy sits be-side the fire. How can she be fair?]
[Oh, the rus-ty, dus-ty, rus-ty mill-er]
[There was a crook-ed man, and he went a crook-ed mile]
[The Li-on and the U-ni-corn were fight-ing for the crown]
[Thomas a Tat-ta-mus took two T’s]
[A little boy went into a barn]
[If all the world were water]
[Jack be nimble]
[Cur-ly locks, cur-ly locks, wilt thou be mine?]
[Mar-ge-ry Mut-ton-pie, and John-ny Bo-peep]
[Is John Smith with-in?]
[Old Mother Goose]
[One, two, buckle my shoe]
[Jack Sprat could eat no fat]
[See a pin and pick it up]
[Leg over leg]
[There was an old wo-man who liv-ed in a shoe]
[There was an old woman]
[We are all in the dumps]
[Hot cross buns, hot cross buns]
[See, saw, Mar-ge-ry Daw]
[Ro-bin and Rich-ard are two pret-ty men]
[Little Nancy Etticote]
[See saw, sacradown, sacradown]
[There was a Piper had a Cow]
[Sing a song of six-pence, a pock-et full of Rye]
[A diller, a dollar]
[Bye, baby bumpkin]
[As I was going to sell my eggs]
[Once I saw a little bird come hop, hop, hop]
[Willy boy, Willy boy, where are you going?]
[Little Robin Red-breast sat upon a rail]
[Ding, dong, darrow]
[Pit, pat, well-a-day]
[Lit-tle Jack Hor-ner sat in a cor-ner]
[Lit-tle Tom Tuck-er]
[Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle]
[A dog and a cat went out together]
[Little Polly Flinders]
[Four and twen-ty tai-lors went to kill a snail]
[A little cock-sparrow sat on a tree]
[Bless you, bless you, bonny bee]
[One day, an old cat and her kittens]
[Doctor Foster went to Gloster]
[John Cook had a little gray mare; he, haw, hum!]
[Dingty, diddlety, my mammy’s maid]
[A horse and cart]
[Who ever saw a rabbit]
[Boys and girls, come out to play]
[Jog on, jog on, the footpath way]
[Hush-a-bye, baby, upon the tree top]
[DINNER]
[THE NEW DOLL]
[GETTING UP]
[THE LINNET’S NEST]
[PLAYING WITH FIRE]
[GRATEFUL LUCY]
[RUN AND PLAY]
[THE CUT]
[SLEEPY HARRY]
[BREAKFAST AND PUSS]
[FRIGHTENED BY A COW]
[THE DUNCE OF A KITTEN]
[SENSIBLE CHARLES]
[PUT DOWN THE BABY]
[DIRTY HANDS]
[FRANCES AND HENRY]
[POISONOUS FRUIT]
[DRESSED OR UNDRESSED]
[BAPTISM IN CHURCH]
[THE PET LAMB]
[Be you to others kind and true]
[HYMN]
[TIME TO RISE]
[FOR NANNIE]
[THE PUSSY CAT]
[Give to the Father praise]
[THE FROLICSOME KITTEN]
[PENANCE FOR BEATING A BROTHER]
[THE NEW BOOK]
[THE DOG]
[THE COW]
[THE BUTTERFLY]
[There was an old wo-man tos-sed up in a bas-ket]
[To make your candles last for a’]
[A milking, a milking, my maid]
[Old father Grey Beard]
[There was an old woman, as I’ve heard tell]
[Bye, baby bunting]
[Away Birds, away!]
[Ba-a, ba-a, black sheep]
[One mis-ty morn-ing]
[Dee-dle, dee-dle, dump-ling, my son John]
[Swan, swan, over the sea]
[I had a lit-tle Hus-band, no big-ger than my thumb]
[Ma-ry, Ma-ry, quite con-tra-ry]
[Hey, my kit-ten, my kit-ten]
[Here we go up, up, up]
[Some lit-tle mice sat in a barn to spin]
[Ding, dong, bell, Pus-sy’s in the well]
[As I was going along, long, long]
[Dance a baby diddit]
[Hush, baby, my doll, I pray you, don’t cry]
[Jack Spratt’s pig]
[The man in the moon]
[There was an old wo-man, and what do you think?]
[A Frog he would a-wooing go]
[Here am I, little jumping Joan]
[Jack and Gill went up the hill]
[Pus-sy cat, pus-sy cat, where have you been?]
[GOOD NIGHT]
[HOT APPLE PIE]
[LUCY AND DICKY]
[THE FAIRY MAN]
[COME PLAY IN THE GARDEN]
[THE UMBRELLA]
[NO BREAKFAST FOR GROWLER]
[CLEVER LITTLE THOMAS]
[SULKING]
[GIVING WITH PRUDENCE]
[THE FIELD DAISY]
[THE MOUSE]
[SHORT ADVICE]
[LEARNING TO GO ALONE]
[CHARITY]
[FOR A LITTLE GIRL THAT DID NOT LIKE TO BE WASHED]
[THE SNOW BALL]
[Jenny Wren fell sick upon a merry time]
[There was a lit-tle man, and he had a lit-tle gun]
[Daf-fy-down-Dil-ly has come up to town]
[Mul-ti-pli-ca-tion is a vex-a-tion]
[Goo-sey, goo-sey, gan-der, whi-ther shall I wan-der?]
[Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater]
[When good King Arthur ruled his land]
[As I went to Bonner]
[Pitty Patty Polt]
[Brow, brow, brinkie]
[Shoe the wild horse, and shoe the grey mare]
[Lady-bird, Lady-bird]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[Hush-a-bye, baby]
[Cross patch]
[Bow-wow-wow]
[Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall]
[The Queen of Hearts]
[Naughty Willey Bell]
[The queen of hearts]
[To market, to market, a gallop, a trot]
[The North Wind doth blow]
[When I was a little boy, my mother kept me in]
[Mary had a pretty bird]
[Miss Jane had a bag, and a mouse was in it]
[MAJA’S ALPHABET]
