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Identifier: boydsmithmothergsmit (find matches)
Title: The Boyd Smith Mother Goose
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Smith, E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd), 1860-1943, ill Elmendorf, Lawrence
Subjects: Nursery rhymes
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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JLittk Jfltsfc Mniittt LITTLE Miss Muffett,Sat on a tuffet,Eating her curds and whey.There came a great spider,And sat down beside her,And frightened Miss Muffett away! (This is an older version.) LITTLE Miss Mopsey,Sat in the shopsey,Eating curds and whey;There came a little spider,Who sat down beside her,And frightened Miss Mopsey away! 16 MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES g>mg a g>ong of £§>txpente SING a song of sixpence,A pocket full of rye;Four-and-twenty blackbirdsBaked in a pie; When the pie was opened,The birds began to sing; Was not that a dainty dishTo set before a king? The king was in the counting-houseCounting out his money; The queen was in the parlourEating bread and honey; The maid was in the gardenHanging out her clothes, Up comes a little bird,And snaps off her nose.
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When the pie was opened,The birds began to sing. MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES 17 Come, &U §t ^rtsffe Poung: Patcfcelor* COME, all ye brisk young batchelors,That wish to have good wives;Id have you be precautious,How you spend your lives.For women are as various,As the fish are in the sea;Theyre ten times more precarious,Than a winter or summers day! When you first begin to court them,Theyre as mild as any dove,And you will think themFull worthy of your love;But when you do get married,The case is altered then;For you will find, my friend,They can let loose their tongues! Now Aristotle choseA most commodious wife,As ever was in this land, Sir,A partner for his life; 18 MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES But soon he found out That twas all a hum. You must not stay to pick them, But take them as they come! Blank or prize tis all a chance,Shut your eyes and then advance!Which eer you touch be pleased at once,For you must pay, let who will dance. There was a victim in a cart,One day for to be hung;And hi
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