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Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales

by James Orchard Halliwell

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2I — Nursery Antiquities
  3. 3II — Fireside Nursery Stories
  4. 4The Story of Mr. Fox
  5. 5The Oxford Student
  6. 6Jack Hornby
  7. 7Mally Dixon and Knurre-Murre
  8. 8The Bull of Norroway
  9. 9Puss in Boots
  10. 10Jack and the Giants
  11. 11Tom Hickathrift
  12. 12Tom Thumb
  13. 13III — Game-Rhymes
  14. 14The Five Fingers
  15. 15Face-Songs
  16. 16Knee-Songs
  17. 17Bo-Peep
  18. 18Miscellaneous Puerile Amusements
  19. 19See-Saw
  20. 20Hitty-Titty
  21. 21Beans and Butter
  22. 22Drop-Cap
  23. 23My Sow Has Pigged
  24. 24Niddy-Noddy
  25. 25Slate Games
  26. 26Game of the Cat
  27. 27Handy-Dandy
  28. 28Barley-Bridge
  29. 29The Town Lovers
  30. 30Mary Brown. Fair Gundela
  31. 31My Daughter Jane
  32. 32Hewley-Puley
  33. 33The Diamond Ring
  34. 34The Poor Soldier
  35. 35The Bramble-Bush
  36. 36The Game of Dump
  37. 37Dancing Looby
  38. 38Drop-Glove
  39. 39Nettles Grow in an Angry Bush
  40. 40Game of the Gipsy
  41. 41Game of the Fox
  42. 42The Old Dame
  43. 43The Poor Woman of Babylon
  44. 44Queen Anne
  45. 45Counting-Out Rhymes
  46. 46IV — Alphabet Rhymes
  47. 47V — Riddle-Rhymes
  48. 48The Four Sisters
  49. 49The Demands Joyous
  50. 50VI — Nature-Songs
  51. 51Weather-Rhymes
  52. 52Snow
  53. 53The Wind
  54. 54The Moon
  55. 55The Cuckoo
  56. 56The Robin and the Wren
  57. 57The Owl
  58. 58Magpies
  59. 59Who Kill’d Cock Robin
  60. 60Crows
  61. 61Pigeons
  62. 62Lapwing and Ringdove
  63. 63The Wood-Pigeon
  64. 64Domestic Poultry
  65. 65Dragon-Flies
  66. 66The Snail
  67. 67Apples — The Walnut-Tree
  68. 68The Ash
  69. 69Peas
  70. 70Pimpernell
  71. 71Marum · Bird-Shooer’s Song — The Gnat
  72. 72The Trout
  73. 73Tobacco
  74. 74Jack-a-Dandy
  75. 75VII — Proverb-Rhymes
  76. 76Tit for Tat
  77. 77Lazy Lawrence
  78. 78VIII — Places and Families
  79. 79Noel — Collingwood
  80. 80The Cauld Lad of Hilton
  81. 81Felton — Sir Ralph Ashton
  82. 82Preston · Lancashire — Leyland
  83. 83Hugh of Lincoln
  84. 84Cuckstone
  85. 85Saint Levan
  86. 86Rollright
  87. 87Hampden
  88. 88Ribchester — Hawley
  89. 89Gotham
  90. 90Buckland
  91. 91Colebrook — Gilling
  92. 92Shrewsbury
  93. 93Jack Robinson
  94. 94Wrangham · Leicestershire — Brockley-Hill
  95. 95Stanton Drew — Severn
  96. 96Sherston Magna
  97. 97North Acre
  98. 98Bellasis
  99. 99Kelloe
  100. 100Roseberry-Topping
  101. 101Lincoln
  102. 102Skiddaw
  103. 103Ingleborough
  104. 104The Kirby Feight
  105. 105Thornton
  106. 106Isle of Man
  107. 107Earsdon — IX — Superstition-Rhymes
  108. 108Buckee Bene
  109. 109The Ox
  110. 110Love Divinations
  111. 111St. Agnes’ Night
  112. 112Kale
  113. 113Ball-Divination
  114. 114The Even-Ash
  115. 115Dock
  116. 116The Yarrow
  117. 117Vervain
  118. 118Finger-Nails
  119. 119Days of Birth
  120. 120Colours
  121. 121The Man in the Moon
  122. 122X — Custom-Rhymes
  123. 123Christmas Mummers’ Play
  124. 124New Year’s Day
  125. 125Twelfth-Night
  126. 126Catherning
  127. 127Valentine’s Day
  128. 128Youling
  129. 129Boy’s Bailiff
  130. 130Pace-Egging
  131. 131Collop-Monday
  132. 132Isle of Wight Shrovers
  133. 133Easter-Gloves
  134. 134Lent-Crocking
  135. 135Care-Sunday
  136. 136April-Fool-Day
  137. 137May-Day
  138. 138Harvest-Home
  139. 139The Barley Mow
  140. 140All-Souls’ Day
  141. 141Fifth of November
  142. 142Barbers’ Forfeits
  143. 143Cockle-Bread
  144. 144A Drinking Custom
  145. 145XI — Nursery-Songs
  146. 146My Cock Lily-Cock
  147. 147Jack Sprat
  148. 148Dabbling in the Dew
  149. 149Hey Diddle Diddle!
  150. 150Tommy Linn
  151. 151The Beggars of Ratcliffe Fair
  152. 152Conclusion

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