The Nursery Rhyme Book Part 17

c.o.c.k-a-doodle-doo!

My dame will dance with you, While master fiddles his fiddling-stick, For dame and doodle-doo.

c.o.c.k-a-doodle-doo!

Dame has lost her shoe; Gone to bed and scratch'd her head, And can't tell what to do.

[Ill.u.s.tration: HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE]

HEY! diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laugh'd To see the sport, While the dish ran after the spoon.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Decoration]

p.u.s.s.iCAT, wussicat, with a white foot, When is your wedding? for I'll come to 't.

The beer's to brew, the bread's to bake, p.u.s.s.y-cat, p.u.s.s.y-cat, don't be too late.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Decoration]

DING, dong, bell, p.u.s.s.y's in the well!

Who put her in?-- Little Tommy Lin.

Who pulled her out?-- Dog with long snout.

What a naughty boy was that To drown poor p.u.s.s.y-cat, Who never did any harm, But kill'd the mice in his father's barn.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Decoration]

DIDDLEDY, diddledy, dumpty; The cat ran up the plum-tree.

I'll lay you a crown I'll fetch you down; So diddledy, diddledy, dumpty.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-de-dee]

FIDDLE-DE-DEE, fiddle-de-dee, The fly shall marry the humble-bee.

They went to the church, and married was she: The fly has married the humble-bee.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Decoration]

TO market, to market, to buy a fat pig; Home again, home again, dancing a jig Ride to the market to buy a fat hog; Home again, home again, jiggety-jog.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Decoration]

HANDY spandy, Jack-a-dandy, Loved plum-cake and sugar-candy; He bought some at a grocer's shop, And out he came, hop, hop, hop.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Decoration]

TWEEDLE-DUM and Tweedle-dee Resolved to have a battle For Tweedle-dum said Tweedle-dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle.

Just then flew by a monstrous crow As big as a tar-barrel, Which frightened both the heroes so They quite forgot their quarrel.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Decoration]

RUB a dub dub, Three men in a tub: And who do you think they be?

The butcher, the baker, The candlestick-maker; Turn 'em out, knaves all three!

[Ill.u.s.tration: LOVE & MATRIMONY]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Jack and Jill went up the hill]

Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Decoration]

ROSEMARY green, And lavender blue, Thyme and sweet marjoram, Hyssop and rue.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Decoration]

BRAVE news is come to town; Brave news is carried; Brave news is come to town Jemmy Dawson's married.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Decoration]

SYLVIA, sweet as morning air, Do not drive me to despair: Long have I sighed in vain, Now I am come again: Will you be mine or no, no-a-no,-- Will you be mine or no?

Simon, pray leave off your suit, For of your courting you'll reap no fruit.

I would rather give a crown Than be married to a clown; Go for a b.o.o.by, go, no-a-no,-- Go, for a b.o.o.by, go.

[Ill.u.s.tration: There was a little boy and a little girl]

THERE was a little boy and a little girl Lived in an alley; Says the little boy to the little girl, "Shall I, oh! shall I?"

Says the little girl to the little boy, "What shall we do?"

Says the little boy to the little girl, "I will kiss you."

[Ill.u.s.tration: Decoration]

WHEN I was a bachelor I lived by myself, And all the meat I got I put upon a shelf; The rats and the mice did lead me such a life That I went to London to get myself a wife.

The streets were so broad and the lanes were so narrow, I could not get my wife home without a wheelbarrow; The wheelbarrow broke, my wife got a fall, Down tumbled wheelbarrow, little wife, and all.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Decoration]

BLUE eye beauty, Grey eye greedy, Black eye blackie, Brown eye brownie.

[Ill.u.s.tration: As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks]

AS Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks Were walking out one Sunday, Says Tommy Snooks to Bessy Brooks, "To-morrow will be Monday."

[Ill.u.s.tration: Decoration]