. The nursery rhymes of England . hecares of a riper age. The absurdity and fri-volity of a rhyme may naturally be its chiefattractions to the very young; and there willbe something lost from the imagination ofthat child, whose parents insist so much onmatters of fact, that the cow must bemade, in compliance with the rules of theireducational code, to jump under insteadof over the moon; while of course thelittle dog must be considered as barking,not laughing at the circumstance. PREFACE. V These, or any sueh objections, —for itseems there are others of about equal weight,—are, it appears to me
. The nursery rhymes of England . hecares of a riper age. The absurdity and fri-volity of a rhyme may naturally be its chiefattractions to the very young; and there willbe something lost from the imagination ofthat child, whose parents insist so much onmatters of fact, that the cow must bemade, in compliance with the rules of theireducational code, to jump under insteadof over the moon; while of course thelittle dog must be considered as barking,not laughing at the circumstance. PREFACE. V These, or any sueh objections, —for itseems there are others of about equal weight,—are, it appears to me, more silly than theworst nursery rhyme the little readers willmeet with in the following pages. I amquite willing to leave the question to theirdecision, feeling assured the catering forthem has not been in vain, and that thesecullings from the high-ways and bye-ways—they have been collected from nearly everycountv in England—will be to them real J o flowers, soothing the misery of many anhour of infantine adversity. .-. CON I1 E N T S. PAGE FIRST CLASS—HISTORICAL . 1 SECOND CLASS—LITERAL . .11 THIRD CLASS—TALES . 22 FOURTH CLASS—PROVERBS . 08 FIFTH CLASS—SCHOLASTIC . 70 SIXTH CLASS—SONGS . 82 SEVENTH CLASS—RIDDLES . 11!) EIGHTH CLASS—CHARMS . 135 NINTH CLASS-GAFFERS AND GAMMERS IH TENTH CLASS—GAMES . 151 i Vlll CONTENTS. I 196 ELEVENTH CLASS—PARADOXES TWELFTH CLASS—LULLABIES . 205 THIRTEENTH CLASS—JINGLES. 213 FOURTEENTH CLASS—LOVE AND MATRI-MONY . 224 FIFTEENTH CLASS—NATURAL HISTORY . 251SIXTEENTH CLASS—ACCUMULATIVE STORIES 282 SEVENTEENTH CLASS—LOCAL . 299 EIGHTEENTH CLASS—RELICS . 303 INDEX 317
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