The Little Mother Goose

The
Little Mother Goose

With numerous illustrations in full

color and black and white

By

JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH

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A List of the Rhymes

align="right">85 Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John 42 Dickory, dickory, dock 67 Ding, dong, bell 14-103 Ding, dong, darrow 21 Doctor Faustus was a good man 91 Doctor Foster went to Gloster 169 Dogs in the garden, catch 'em, Towser 23 Donkey, donkey, old and gray 58 Draw a pail of water 54
Eggs, butter, cheese, bread
27 Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess 63 Elsie Marley has grown so fine 18
Father, may I go to war?
127 F for a fig 176 For every evil under the sun 107 Friday night's dream on Saturday told 39
Georgey Porgey, pudding and pie
55 God bless the master of this house 132 Good horses, bad horses 57 Goosey, goosey, gander 118 Great A, little a, Bouncing B 101 Great A, little A 10
Handy Spandy, Jack-a-dandy
45 Hark! hark! the dogs do bark 107 Hector Protector was dressed all in green 58 Heigh, diddle, diddle 100 Here am I, little jumping Joan 62 Here sits the Lord Mayor 19 Here's Sulky Sue 158 Here stands a post 9 Here we go round the mulberry bush 134 Hickery Dickery 6 and 7 106 Hickory Dickory, sackory down 50 Hickety, pickety, my black hen 95 Higher than a house 17 Hink minx! the old witch winks 32 Hiram Gordon, where's your pa? 144 Hot cross buns 76 How many miles is it to Babylon? 104 Hub-a-dub-dub 122 Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall 76 Hush-a-bye, baby, Daddy is near 125 Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top 1 Hush, baby, my doll 46
I am a gold lock
81 I bought a dozen new-laid eggs 107 I do not like thee, Dr. Fell 89 If all the seas were one sea 106 If all the world was apple-pie 119 If all the world were water 123 If ifs and ands 79 I had a little husband 118 I had a little nut-tree 35 I had a little pony 84 I had four brothers over the sea 155 I have a little sister 139 I'll tell you a story 9 I like little pussy, her coat is so warm 69 I love you well, my little brother 133 In fir tar is 57 Intery, mintery, cutery, corn 55 I saw a peacock with a fiery tail 61 It costs little Gossip her income for shoes 157 It's raining, it's pouring 169 I went to the wood and got it 85 I went up one pair of stairs 146 I will sing you a song

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@20511@[email protected]#Page_109" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">109 I won't be my father's Jack 50
Jack and Jill went up the hill
80 Jack, be nimble; Jack, be quick 84 Jack Spratt could eat no fat 97 Jack Spratt had a cat 10 Jack Spratt's pig 125 Jerry Hall, he is so small 39 Jockey was a piper's son 40 John, come sell thy fiddle 14 Joseph Smith bought a rake 27
Ladies and gentlemen, come to supper
152 Lady bird, lady bird, fly away home 87 Lady-bug, lady-bug 48 Lazy Tom, with jacket blue 53 Little Betty Blue 39 Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep 16 Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn 8 Little Cock Robin peeped out of his cabin 32 Little drops of water 31 Little girl, little girl, where have you been? 33 Little Jack Horner 100 Little King Boggen he built a fine hall 173 Little lad, little lad 32 Little maid, little maid 50 Little maid, pretty maid 34 Little Miss Donnet 41 Little Miss Lily 47 Little Miss Muffet 32 Little Nancy Etticote 30 Little Poll Parrot 41 Little Polly Flinders 119 Little Robin Red-breast sat upon a rail 29 Little Tommy Grace 43 Little Tommy Tittlemouse 77 Little Tommy Tucker 99 Little Tom Twig 132 Love your own, kiss your own 40 Lucy Locket lost her pocket 24
Made in London
31 Make three-fourths of a cross 71 Margaret wrote a letter 11 Margery Mutton-pie and Johnny Bopeep 82 Mary had a little lamb 68 Mary had a pretty bird 86 Mary, Mary, quite contrary 73 Merry are the bells 130 Miss Jane had a bag 93 Monday's bairn is fair of face 139 Multiplication is vexation 60 My little old man and I fell out 77 My maid Mary, she minds the dairy 5 My mother, and your mother 71 My pussy-cat has got the gout 129 My story's ended 28
Nancy Dawson has grown so fine
128 Needles and pins 169 Nose, nose, jolly red nose 108 Now go to sleep, my little son 104
Of all the gay birds that e'er I did see
114 Oh, dear, What can the matter be? Johnny's so long 62 Old Father Grey Beard 40 Old Grimes is dead 128 Old King Cole was a merry old soul 175 Old Mother Hubbard 162 One, he loves; two, he loves 46 One for the money 96 One misty, moisty morning 37 One, two, buckle my shoe 51 One, two, three, four, Mary at

the cottage door 114 One, two, three, four, five, catching fishes all alive 114 1, 2, 3, 4, 5! I caught a hare alive 67 On Saturday night it shall be my whole care 25 Over the water and under the water 15
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake
2 Pease-porridge hot 4-158 Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater 57 Peter Piper picked a peck 129 Peter White will ne'er go right 165 Phoebe rode a nanny-goat 13 Pickeleem, pickeleem pummis-stone 35 Pit, pat, well-a-day 31 Pitty Patty Polt 27 Play, play every day 29 Please to remember 5 Polly, put the kettle on 13 Polly, Dolly, Kate and Molly 12 Poor Dog Bright 6 Pussy Cat Mole 88 Pussy-Cat, pussy-cat, where have you been? 109 Pussy sits beside the fire 37
Rain, rain, go away
65 Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady 89 Ride a cock-horse to Shrewsbury Cross 44 Riddle-me, riddle-me, riddle-me-ree 91 Ring-a-round-a roses 40 Ring the bell! 4 Robert Barnes, fellow fine 94 Robin and Richard were two pretty men 101 Robin the Bobbin, the big-bellied Ben 138 Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green 74 Rosemary green, and lavender blue 44 Rowley Powley, pudding and pie 175 Rub-a-dub-dub 5
See a pin and pick it up
83 See-saw Jack in the hedge 29 See-saw, Margery Daw, Jacky shall have a new master 101 See-saw, Margery Daw, Jenny shall have a new master 9 See-saw, sacaradown, sacaradown 25 Shoe the colt 36 Shoe the horse and shoe the mare 27 Sing a song of sixpence 70 Sing, sing! What shall I sing? 10 Smiling girls, rosy boys 129 Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for danger 157 Solomon Grundy 76 Some little mice sat in a barn to spin 20 Speak when you're spoken to 137 St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain 114 Swan, swam over the sea 107
Taffy was a Welshman
145 Tell-tale-tit! 99 Ten little Injuns standing in a line 124 The calf, the goose, the bee 69 The cock doth crow 6 The cock's on the housetop blowing his horn 33 The cuckoo's a fine bird 74 The dove says, "Coo, coo, what shall I do?" 6 The girl in the lane, that couldn't speak plain 34 The greedy man is he who sits 45 The King of France went up the hill 7 The lion and the unicorn 174 The man in the moon came tumbling down 121 The man in the moon looked out of the moon 93 The man in the wilderness asked me 92 The North wind doth blow

tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">152 The old woman must stand at the tub 54 The Queen of Hearts 146 The rose is red, the violet is blue 20 The two gray kits 17 The winds they did blow 78 There dwelt an old woman at Exeter 85 There was a crooked man 71 There was a little boy and a little girl 31 There was a little girl who had a little curl 45 There was a little girl who wore a little hood 23 There was a little green house 79 There was a little man and he had a little gun 116 There was a little one-eyed gunner 80 There was a man in our town and he was wondrous wise                63 There was an old crow 29 There was an old woman, and what do you think 28 There was an old woman, as I've heard tell 153 There was an old woman and nothing she had 117 There was an old woman called Nothing-at-all 73 There was an old woman had three cows 44 There was an old woman, her name it was Peg 38 There was an old woman in Surrey 43 There was an old woman lived under a hill, and if she's not gone 19 There was an old woman lived under a hill, she put a mouse in a bag 14 There was an old woman of Harrow, 87 There was an old woman of Leeds, 82 There was an old woman tossed up in a basket 75 There was an old woman who lived in a shoe 88 There was an owl lived in an oak 127 There was a rat for want of stairs 62 There once were two cats of Kilkenny 115 There's a neat little clock 96 There were two blackbirds 52 Thirty days hath September 83 This is the house that Jack built 140 This is the way the ladies ride 126 This little pig went to market 7 This pig went to the barn 115 Three Blind Mice 64 Three children sliding on the ice 102 Three little kittens they lost their mittens 159 Three wise men of Gotham 71 Tit, tat, toe 56 To market, to market a gallop, a trot 173 To market, to market, to buy a plum cake 22 Tommy Trot, a man of laws 95 Tom, Tom, the Piper's son, he learnt to play when he was young, 20 Tom, Tom, the Piper's son, stole a pig 123 Toss up my darling 9 Trip and go, heave and ho 10 Tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee 122 Twinkle, twinkle, little star 120 Two little dogs 65
Up at Piccadilly, oh!
67 Up hill and down dale 67 Upon my word and honor 172
Was ever heard such noise and clamor
60 Wash the dishes 36 Wasn't it funny 58 Wear you a hat, or wear you a crown 52 Wee Willie Winkie 56 What do they call you? 73 What God never sees 53 What is the rhyme for porringer 82 When I was a bachelor, I lived by myself 98 When I was taken from the fair body 13 When Jacky's a very good boy

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@20511@[email protected]#Page_133" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">133 When little Fred went to bed 59 When the days begin to lengthen 1 Where are you going, my pretty maid? 72 Whistle, daughter, whistle 38 Who comes here? 59 Who killed Cock Robin? 170 "Will you walk into my parlor?" 110 Willy boy, Willy boy 79
Yankee Doodle went to town
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