. Mother Goose's melodies : or Songs for the nursery . BOSTON HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY €l)c iiliVicr^itic 5^rc^-sf, Camtititigc 1879 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by HuRD AND Houghton, In the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. Copyright, 1S78,By HOUGHTON, OSGOOD & CO All rights reseived. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE : STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. Of the many who must recollect the nursery jingles of their youth, how few in number are thosewho have ever suspected their immense age, or that they were ever mo
. Mother Goose's melodies : or Songs for the nursery . BOSTON HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY €l)c iiliVicr^itic 5^rc^-sf, Camtititigc 1879 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by HuRD AND Houghton, In the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. Copyright, 1S78,By HOUGHTON, OSGOOD & CO All rights reseived. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE : STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. Of the many who must recollect the nursery jingles of their youth, how few in number are thosewho have ever suspected their immense age, or that they were ever more than unmeaning nonsense;far less that their creation belongs to a period before that at which the authentic records of our his-tory commence. Yet there is no exaggeration in such a statement. We find the same trifles whicherewhile lulled or amused the English infant are current in slightly varied forms throughout theNorth of Europe; we know that they have been sung in the northern countries for centuries, andthat there has been no modern out
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