The Project Gutenberg eBook, Mother Goose's Teddy Bears, by Frederick Leopold Cavally

Mother Goose’s Teddy Bears

Mother Goose’s
Teddy Bears

Illustrated
AND ADAPTED TO MOTHER GOOSE BY
Frederick L. Cavally.
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS INDIANAPOLIS U.S.A.
MCMVII

Copyright 1907
The Bobbs-Merrill Company

Dear Boys and Girls.—

In the short time I have been among you, I have made friends of some of the best little boys and girls throughout the land.

I have been writing to my brothers and sisters at home telling them all about you, and they are very anxious to become acquainted also; so I sent for our family photograph album, which contains most of their pictures.

Now Old Mother Goose is a neighbor of ours, and she earns her living by writing little rhymes, tales and jingles, and as she is a very good friend of our family, she has written many verses and rhymes about us, which I know you will enjoy reading.

So you see I take great pride in presenting you this copy of our Family Photograph Album.

Your sincere friend,
Teddy.

What are little Ted boys made of, made of?

What are little Ted boys made of?

Snaps and snails, and puppy-dogs’ tails;

And that’s what Little Ted Boys are made of, made of.

What are little Ted girls made of, made of?

What are little Ted girls made of?

Sugar and spice, and all that’s nice;

And that’s what Little Ted girls are made of, made of.

Ding dong bell!

Teddy’s in the well!

Who put him in?

Little Teddy Flinn.

Who pulled him out?

Little Teddy Stout.

What a naughty boy was there

Thus to drown poor Teddy Bear.

Little Ted Horner

Sat in a corner,

Eating a Christmas Pie.

He put in his thumb,

And took out a plum,

And said, “What a big bear am I!”

As I went to Bonner,

I met a bear

With coal-black hair,

Upon my word and honor.

Old Mother Hubbard

Went to the cupboard

To get Little Teddy a bun;

But when she got there,

The cupboard was bare,

So poor Little Ted had none.

She went to the baker’s

To buy him some bread;

But when she came back,

Poor Teddy was dead.

She went to the joiner’s

To buy him a coffin;

But when she came back,

Little Teddy was laughing

She took a clean dish

To get him some tripe;

But when she came back,

He was smoking his pipe

She went to the tavern

For white wine and red;

But when she came back,

Ted stood on his head.

She went to the ale-house

To get him some beer;

But when she came back,

Ted sat in a chair.

She went to the barber’s

To buy him a wig;

But when she came back,

He was dancing a Jig

She went to the fruiterer’s

To buy him some fruit;

But when she came back,

Ted was playing the flute.

She went to the cobbler’s

To buy him some shoes;

But when she came back,

Ted was reading the news.

Dame Bear made a curtsey,

Little Ted made a bow;

Dame Bear said, “Your servant,”

Little Ted said, “How now.”

Rain, rain, go away;

Come again another day;

Little Teddy wants to play.

Solomon Grundy

Born on a Monday,

Christened on Tuesday,

Married on Wednesday,

Very ill on Thursday,

Worse on Friday,

Died on Saturday,

Buried on Sunday,

This is the end,

Of Solomon Grundy.

Ted and Jill

Went up the hill,

To fetch a pail

of water;

Ted Fell down,

And broke his crown,

And Jill came

Tumbling after.

To make your candles last for aye,

You wives and maids give ear-o!

To put them out’s the only way,

Says Honest Ted Boldero.

Little Teddy Tittlemouse

Lived in a little house;

He caught fishes

In other men’s ditches.

Multiplication is vexation;

2 × 2 = ?

Division is as bad;

6 ÷ 2 = ?

The rule of three perplexes me,

3 × 3 = ?

And practice drives me mad.

Teddy Trot, a man of law

Sold his bed and lay upon straw

Sold the straw and slept on grass

To buy his wife a looking-glass

Wash me and comb me,

And lay me down softly,

And set me on a bank to dry;

That I may look pretty

When Teddy comes by.

Tell-Tale Tit!

Your tongue shall be slit,

And all the Teddy Bears in town

Shall have a little bit!

Nose, nose, jolly red nose,

And what gave you that jolly red nose?

Nutmegs and cinnamon spices and cloves,

And they gave me this jolly red nose.

Three wise bears of Gotham

Went to sea in a bowl;

If the bowl had been stronger

My story had been longer.

Teddy be nimble,

Teddy be quick,

And Teddy jump over the candlestick.

See-saw, Margery Daw,

Teddy shall have a new master;

He shall have but a penny a day,

Because he can’t work any faster

Little Ted Snooks was Fond of his books,

And loved by his usher and master;

But naughty Ted Spry, he got a black eye,

And carries his nose in a plaster.

Cock crows in the morn,

To tell us to rise,

And he who lies late

Will never be wise;

For early to bed,

And early to rise,

Makes teddy bears healthy

And wealthy and wise.

The rose is red,

The grass is green;

And in this book

My name is seen.

Teddy.