Children's Literature. Charles Madison Curry

out his yellow hair,

       He's my love for evermore—

       Pretty Bobby Shafto!

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      Bow, wow, wow,

       Whose dog art thou?

       Little Tom Tinker's dog,

       Bow, wow, wow.

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      Bye, baby bunting,

       Daddy's gone a-hunting,

       To get a little rabbit skin

       To wrap the baby bunting in.

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      Come when you're called,

       Do what you're bid,

       Shut the door after you,

       Never be chid.

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      Cross patch,

       Draw the latch,

       And sit by the fire and spin;

       Take a cup,

       And drink it up,

       Then call your neighbors in.

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      Curly locks! curly locks! wilt thou be mine?

       Thou shalt not wash the dishes, nor yet feed the swine.

       But sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam,

       And feed upon strawberries, sugar, and cream!

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      Dance, little baby, dance up high,

       Never mind, baby, mother is by;

       Crow and caper, caper and crow,

       There, little baby, there you go;

       Up to the ceiling, down to the ground,

       Backward and forward, round and round;

       Dance, little baby, and mother will sing,

       With the merry coral, ding, ding, ding!

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      Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John,

       He went to bed with his stockings on;

       One shoe off, the other shoe on,

       Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John.

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      Ding, dong, bell!

       Pussy's in the well.

       Who put her in?

       Little Tommy Green.

       Who pulled her out?

       Little Johnny Stout.

       What a naughty boy was that,

       To drown the poor, poor pussy-cat,

       Who never did him any harm,

       But killed the mice in his father's barn.

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      Doctor Foster

       Went to Glo'ster,

       In a shower of rain;

       He stepped in a puddle,

       Up to his middle,

       And never went there again.

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      Eggs, butter, cheese, bread,

       Stick, stock, stone dead,

       Stick him up, stick him down,

       Stick him in the old man's crown.

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      For every evil under the sun,

       There is a remedy, or there is none.

       If there be one, try to find it,

       If there be none, never mind it.

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      Four-and-twenty tailors went to kill a snail,

       The bravest man among them dursn't touch her tail;

       The snail put out her horns, like a little Kyloe cow,

       Run, tailors, run, or she'll kill you all e'en now.

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      Great A, little a,

       Bouncing B!

       The cat's in the cupboard,

       And she can't see.

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      Hark, hark,

       The dogs do bark,

       The beggars are coming to town:

       Some in tags,

       Some in rags,

       And some in velvet gowns.

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