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The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes

by Walter Jerrold

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2Epigraph — The Queen of Hearts
  3. 3Saint Swithin’s Day — Dance to Your Daddie
  4. 4The Man in the Moon — Simple Simon
  5. 5Toad and Frog
  6. 6Little Jack Horner
  7. 7The Wooing
  8. 8Handy Pandy — The Kilkenny Cats
  9. 9Blow Wind Blow
  10. 10One, Two, Three, and Four Legs
  11. 11Blue Bell Boy
  12. 12Cock-a-Doodle-Do
  13. 13John Cook’s Grey Mare
  14. 14Buz and Hum
  15. 15Tommy Tittlemouse · A and B and See · Doctor Foster · Daffy Down Di…
  16. 16Ho My Kitten
  17. 17Lavender Blue
  18. 18The Quarrelsome Kittens
  19. 19The Fly and the Humble-bee — Cat and Dog
  20. 20Bobby Shaft
  21. 21The Little Clock
  22. 22Little Maid
  23. 23Bat, Bat — Christmas
  24. 24Peter White — Sleep Baby Sleep
  25. 25Up Pippen Hill
  26. 26A Falling Out · Tom, the Piper’s Son · Peg · A Difficult Rhyme — Th…
  27. 27Poor Old Robinson Crusoe
  28. 28Two Little Dogs — Saturday, Sunday
  29. 29Merchants of London — The Owl in the Oak
  30. 30Georgy Porgy — To Market
  31. 31The Little Guinea-Pig
  32. 32A Nick and a Nock · Pancake Day · Hush-a-bye Baby — In Marble Halls
  33. 33Jack Sprat’s Pig
  34. 34Robin-a-Bobin · Bandy-Legs — A Apple Pie
  35. 35The Pumpkin Eater · Hush-a-bye, Baby · Birds of a Feather — Cock-a-…
  36. 36Hush, Baby, My Dolly
  37. 37I Had a Little Pony
  38. 38Snail
  39. 39My Lady Wind
  40. 40Little Jenny Wren
  41. 41Poor Robin
  42. 42Pussy Cat
  43. 43Dance, Little Baby
  44. 44Of Washing · Dickery, Dickery, Dare — The House That Jack Built
  45. 45A Frog He Would Awooing Go
  46. 46The Mouse and the Miller
  47. 47Little Betty Blue — Of the Cutting of Nails
  48. 48The Orange Stealer — I Love Sixpence
  49. 49Diddley-Diddley-Dumpty — Sammy Soapsuds
  50. 50The Rose Is Red
  51. 51The Wind
  52. 52A Warning
  53. 53Fingers and Toes — Cock-Crow
  54. 54My Maid Mary
  55. 55Robin and Wren — Buy Me a Milking-pail
  56. 56Humpty-Dumpty — What Are Little Boys Made of?
  57. 57There Was a Little Man
  58. 58A Medley
  59. 59The Wise Men of Gotham · To the Birds · Hey! Diddle, Diddle — Two L…
  60. 60The Little Cock Sparrow
  61. 61Dame Trot
  62. 62If — How Do You Do?
  63. 63There Was a Little Boy
  64. 64The Man in the Wilderness
  65. 65Thomas A’Tattamus — Little Girl, Little Girl
  66. 66Old King Cole
  67. 67Lengthening Days · Hark, Hark! The Dogs Do Bark — Bessy Bell and Ma…
  68. 68Wee Willie Winkie
  69. 69Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
  70. 70Early Rising — The Tailors and the Snail
  71. 71Buttons
  72. 72Sulky Sue — Hector Protector
  73. 73Jerry and James and John
  74. 74The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
  75. 75Needles and Pins — The Song of Myself
  76. 76Tit-Tat-Toe · The Way to London Town · Cæsar’s Song — Green Gravel
  77. 77Wash Me and Comb Me — Ten Fingers
  78. 78The Codlin Woman
  79. 79Of Pigs — Good King Arthur
  80. 80Solomon Grundy — Three Blind Mice
  81. 81Cross-Patch — Yankee Doodle
  82. 82Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
  83. 83Boys and Girls
  84. 84Sing Ivy
  85. 85Pussycat Mew
  86. 86Goosey, Goosey, Gander
  87. 87The Man and His Calf
  88. 88Ride a Cock-horse — Seeking a Wife
  89. 89Doctor Faustus
  90. 90Polly, Put the Kettle on
  91. 91The Blacksmith
  92. 92The Fount of Learning
  93. 93Of Arithmetic — Over the Water to Charley
  94. 94Three Jolly Welshmen
  95. 95The Days of the Month · A Varied Song · A Diller, a Dollar — A Pie…
  96. 96The Girl in the Lane · Three Men in a Tub · Little Miss Muffet — Th…
  97. 97Cock Robin’s Courting
  98. 98For Every Evil
  99. 99When I Was a Little Boy — Andrew
  100. 100Mary’s Canary
  101. 101The Cuckoo — A Swarm of Bees
  102. 102Robin and Richard
  103. 103The Death and Burial of Cock Robin
  104. 104Lady-bird, Lady-bird — The Loving Brothers
  105. 105Nothing-at-All
  106. 106Fortune-telling by Cherry-stones
  107. 107Little Bo-peep
  108. 108To Bed! · Of Going to Bed — Grace Before Meat
  109. 109There Was a Butcher
  110. 110Winter Has Come — Monday’s Child
  111. 111Jack and Jill
  112. 112Charley, Charley — The Piper’s Cow
  113. 113Shave a Pig · Tongs — Going to St. Ives
  114. 114Merry Are the Bells
  115. 115More About Jack Jingle — Robin, the Bobbin
  116. 116All for Want of a Nail
  117. 117Curly Locks
  118. 118St. Valentine’s Day · The King of France · The Latest News — The Li…
  119. 119I Like Little Pussy
  120. 120Punch and Judy
  121. 121The Obstinate Pig
  122. 122Bow-wow, Says the Dog
  123. 123The Burny Bee · Danty Baby — The Dove and the Wren
  124. 124Tommy’s Cake — The Man of Thessaly
  125. 125Cushy Cow
  126. 126There Was an Old Woman
  127. 127Tell-Tale-Tit — Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, and Bess
  128. 128Sing a Song of Sixpence
  129. 129Three Children Sliding
  130. 130Ride Away, Ride Away
  131. 131Mother Goose
  132. 132Dear, Dear! — The Lion and the Unicorn
  133. 133The Little Mouse
  134. 134The Nut-tree
  135. 135Polly Flinders — Brian O’Lin
  136. 136Margery Daw — Nonsense
  137. 137Another Falling Out
  138. 138Little Boy Blue
  139. 139Little Tom Tucker
  140. 140Old Woman, Old Woman
  141. 141Up Hill and Down Dale
  142. 142Lucy Locket · Fortune-telling by Daisy Petals · Baby Bunting · The…
  143. 143The Little Husband
  144. 144To the Hayfield
  145. 145The Months of the Year
  146. 146The Little Moppet
  147. 147Simon Brodie’s Cow
  148. 148A Carrion Crow
  149. 149Nanny Etticoat · Good-Friday Song — I Saw a Ship a Sailing
  150. 150One, Two
  151. 151Little Robin Redbreast
  152. 152Diddle Diddle Dumpling · Mary, Mary — Jack Jingle
  153. 153Betty Winkle’s Pig
  154. 154Three Brethren Out of Spain
  155. 155What Care I? — The Three Kittens
  156. 156The Lady and the Swine
  157. 157The Jolly Miller
  158. 158Feetikins — Tom the Piper’s Son
  159. 159Doctor Fell — The Fifth of November
  160. 160Billy, Billy
  161. 161Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
  162. 162Johnny
  163. 163Sing, Sing! — Peter Piper
  164. 164Nancy Dawson
  165. 165London Bridge
  166. 166Master I Have
  167. 167Rock-a-by, Baby — The Farmer and His Daughter
  168. 168A Strange Sight
  169. 169I’ll Try
  170. 170The Fox and the Goose
  171. 171Where Are You Going?
  172. 172The Division of Labour
  173. 173King Pippin’s Hall · If — Coffee and Tea
  174. 174A Wonderful Thing — My Boy Tammie
  175. 175The Little Man With a Gun
  176. 176If Wishes Were Horses · Clap Handies — Taffy Was a Welshman
  177. 177There Was a Man
  178. 178Jack’s Fiddle
  179. 179A Was an Archer
  180. 180Three Ships
  181. 181The Crooked Song
  182. 182A, B, C — Comical Folk
  183. 183Ding, Dong, Bell
  184. 184Bobby Snooks
  185. 185Six Little Mice
  186. 186Wing, Wang, Waddle, Oh
  187. 187The Hart — Old Chairs to Mend
  188. 188See, See! — Old Mother Hubbard
  189. 189To Babylon
  190. 190My Black Hen — I’ll Tell You a Story

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