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| general introduction | vii |
| introduction to volume one | xv |
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| FATHER AND MOTHER PLAYS | |
| Baby’s Ten Little Live Playthings | 2 |
| By J. K. Barry | |
| Monday | 4 |
| By Edith Goodyear | |
| Finger Play | 5 |
| By Edith Goodyear | |
| Counting the Fingers | 6 |
| An Old Norse Finger Play | 6 |
| Baby’s Toes | 6 |
| Baby’s Toes | 7 |
| By Edith A. Bentley | |
| This Is the Way My Fingers Stand | 8 |
| Thumbkin, Pointer | 8 |
| Naming the Fingers | 8 |
| By Laura E. Richards | |
| Robert Barns | 8 |
| "“Shall I, Oh! Shall I?” | 8 |
| Jack, Be Nimble | 9 |
| Two Little Hands | 9 |
| Pat a Cake | 9 |
| Clap Your Hands | 9 |
| The Bird’s Nest | 10 |
| A Froebel Finger Play | |
| Two Little Blackbirds | 10 |
| Master Smith | 10 |
| Little Robin Redbreast | 10 |
| Greeting | 10 |
| A Play for the Arms | 10 |
| The Little Window | 10 |
| A Froebel Finger Play | |
| Sing a Song of Sixpence | 11 |
| The Pigeon House | 11 |
| A Froebel Finger Play | |
| Said This Little Fairy | 12 |
| A Burrowing Game | 12 |
| Pat a Cake | 12 |
| A Froebel Finger Play | |
| A Knee Game | 12 |
| A Foot Play | 12 |
| Putting the Fingers to Sleep | 13 |
| Ten Little Squirrels | 14 |
| My Little Garden | 15 |
| The Family | 16 |
| By Emilie Poulsson | |
| Johnny Shall Have a New Bonnet | 18 |
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| RIDING SONGS FOR FATHER’S KNEE | |
| To Market Ride the Gentlemen | 19 |
| Here Goes My Lord | 19 |
| A Farmer Went Trotting | 20 |
| Up to the Ceiling | 20 |
| The Messenger | 20 |
| Catch Him, Crow | 20 |
| Ride a Cock-Horse | 21 |
| This Is the Way | 21 |
| Ride Away, Ride Away | 21 |
| To Market, to Market | 21 |
| Trot, Trot, the Baby Goes | 21 |
| By Mary F. Butts | |
| Ride a Cock-Horse | 22 |
| Here We Go | 22 |
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| MOTHER GOOSE SONGS AND STORIES | |
| Who Are These? | 24 |
| I Saw a Ship a-Sailing | 25 |
| Goosey, Goosey, Gander | 25 |
| The Wind | 25 |
| Once I Saw a Little Bird | 25 |
| Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses | 25 |
| Cross Patch | 26 |
| Happy Let Us Be | 26 |
| The Old Woman in the Basket | 26 |
| The Fox and the Old Gray Goose | 28 |
| Jack and Jill | 29 |
| Willy Boy | 29 |
| Bonny Lass | 29 |
| Oh, Where Are You Going? | 30 |
| Bobby Shaftoe | 30 |
| Ding-Dong-Bell | 30 |
| London Bridge | 31 |
| Green Gravel | 32 |
| Old Mother Hubbard | 32 |
| Little Bo-Peep | 34 |
| Come Out to Play | 35 |
| Little Robin Redbreast | 35 |
| Little Boy Blue | 36 |
| My Maid Mary | 36 |
| Hark! Hark! | 37 |
| Bow-Wow-Wow | 37 |
| Blow, Wind, Blow | 37 |
| Bye, Baby Bunting | 37 |
| Three Little Kittens | 38 |
| Tom Was a Piper’s Son | 39 |
| Daffy-Down-Dilly | 40 |
| Billy Boy | 40 |
| Three Wise Men of Gotham | 41 |
| Little Tommy Tucker | 41 |
| Pussy and the Mice | 41 |
| When I Was a Little Boy | 41 |
| Chinese Mother-Goose Rhymes | 42 |
| By Prof. Isaac Taylor Headland | |
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| MOTHER GOOSE CONTINUED | |
| By Anna Marion Smith | |
| Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat | 45 |
| Little Boy Blue | 45 |
| Pat-a-Cake | 46 |
| Dickory Dock | 46 |
| How Many Miles to Babylon? | 47 |
| Hark! Hark! | 47 |
| There Was an Old Woman | 48 |
| Humpty Dumpty | 51 |
| The Queen of Hearts | 54 |
| One Misty, Moisty Morning | 54 |
| Old King Cole | 55 |
| Pussy Sits Beside the Fire | 56 |
| The North Wind Doth Blow | 56 |
| I Had a Little Husband | 57 |
| There Was a Man in Our Town | 57 |
| See Saw, Sacaradown | 57 |
| Sing a Song o’ Sixpence | 58 |
| I Love Little Pussy | 58 |
| The Horner Brothers | 59 |
| By Elizabeth Raymond Woodward | |
| A Little Old Man | 60 |
| Jingles | 60 |
| Sailing | 61 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| An Up-to-Date Pussy-Cat | 62 |
| By Adeline Knapp | |
| Misery in Company | 63 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| Court News | 64 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| A Message to Mother Goose | 65 |
| By Ellen Manly | |
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| SLEEPY-TIME SONGS AND STORIES | |
| Sweet and Low | 72 |
| By Alfred, Lord Tennyson | |
| The Sleepy-Time Story | 73 |
| By Gertrude Smith | |
| The Go Sleep Story | 75 |
| By Eudora S. Bumstead | |
| The Gentle Dark | 78 |
| By W. Grahame Robertson | |
| The Ferry for Shadowtown | 78 |
| Hush-a-Bye, Baby | 78 |
| The Kitten and the Falling Leaves | 78 |
| By William Wordsworth | |
| Late | 79 |
| By Josephine Preston Peabody | |
| A Blessing for the Blessed | 80 |
| By Laurence Alma-Tadema | |
| My Dolly | 80 |
| The Child and the World | 80 |
| Evening Song | 80 |
| By C. Frances Alexander | |
| Rock-a-Bye, Baby | 80 |
| The Sandman | 81 |
| By Margaret Vandergrift | |
| The Fairy Folk | 81 |
| By Robert Bird | |
| Queen Mab | 82 |
| By Thomas Hood | |
| Lullaby | 82 |
| By Gertrude Thompson Miller | |
| Kentucky Babe | 82 |
| My Possessions | 83 |
| The Wake-Up Story | 83 |
| By Eudora S. Bumstead | |
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| FIRST STORIES FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK | |
| About Six Little Chickens | 86 |
| By S. L. Elliott | |
| “Trade-Last” | 88 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| Philip’s Horse | 89 |
| The Kitten That Forgot How to Mew | 90 |
| By Stella George Stern | |
| What Could the Farmer Do? | 93 |
| By George William Ogden | |
| Fledglings | 97 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| “Time to Get Up!” | 98 |
| By Ellen Foster | |
| Maggie’s Very Own Secret | 100 |
| By Sara Josephine Albright | |
| The Good Little Piggie and His Friends | 102 |
| By L. Waldo Lockling | |
| Baby’s Paradise | 105 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| Disobedience | 106 |
| For a Little Girl of Three | 108 |
| By Uncle Ned | |
| A Funny Family | |
| Little by Little | |
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| LITTLE STORIES THAT GROW BIG | |
| The House that Jack Built | 111 |
| Giant Thunder Bones | 112 |
| By Stella Doughty | |
| The House that Jill Built | 116 |
| By Carolyn Wells | |
| The Old Woman and Her Pig | 119 |
| The Lambikin | 121 |
| The Cat and the Mouse | 123 |
| Henny-Penny | 124 |
| Three Goats in the Ryefield | 127 |
| Adapted by Cecilia Farwell | |
| Teeny Tiny | 129 |
| Song of the Pear Tree | 130 |
| Cock-Alu and Hen-Alie | 131 |
| By Mary Howitt | |
| There Is the Key of the Kingdom | 136 |
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| FUN FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK | |
| No Dogs Allowed at Large | 137 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| Tommy and His Sister and Their New Pony-Cart | 138 |
| By Dewitt Clinton Falls | |
| The Adventures of Three Little Kittens | 139 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| The Little Kittens’ Surprise | 140 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| Ted’s Foolish Wish | 141 |
| By Charles Fitch Lester | |
| Nonsense Rhyme | 142 |
| Timothy Trundle | 143 |
| By Frederick Moxon | |
| A Dream of Glory | 148 |
| By Charles Fitch Lester | |
| Pictures | 149 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| The Reunion of the Bruin Family at the Sea Shore | 150 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| The Baby Mice Are Instructed by Their Fond Papa | 151 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| Roly Poly on Vacation | 152 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| Mother Goose’s Last Trolley Ride | 153 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| Ivan and the Wolf | 154 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| Homeward Bound | 154 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| Their Little Jar | 156 |
| By Bell | |
| Little Eski and the Polar Bear | 158 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
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| FUNNY VERSES AND PICTURES | |
| The Frog’s Fiasco | 160 |
| By D. K. Stevens | |
| The Musical Trust | 164 |
| By D. K. Stevens | |
| The Cautious Cat | 168 |
| By D. K. Stevens | |
| Three Little Bears | 171 |
| By M. C. McNeill | |
| The Snowman | 172 |
| By W. W. Ellsworth | |
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| ANIMAL STORIES | |
| Tiny Hare and the Wind Ball | 173 |
| By A. L. Sykes | |
| How Tiny Hare Met Cat | 176 |
| By A. L. Sykes | |
| The Wee Hare and the Red Fire | 179 |
| By A. L. Sykes | |
| The Good King | 182 |
| By Margaret and Clarence Weed | |
| Early and Late | 184 |
| By W. S. Reed | |
| The Little Pink Pig and the Big Road | 185 |
| By Jasmine Stone Van Dresser | |
| Juggerjook | 188 |
| By L. Frank Baum | |
| What You Burying, a Bone | 194 |
| The Little Gray Kitten | 194 |
| By Mary Lawrence Turnbull | |
| Pussy’s Wheels | 197 |
| By Annie W. McCullough | |
| The Small Gray Mouse | 198 |
| By Nathan Haskell Dole | |
| The Rabbit, the Turtle, and the Owl | 200 |
| Homes | 201 |
| By Annie W. McCullough | |
| Meal-Time in the Bear-Pits at the Zoo | 202 |
| By I. W. Taben | |
| The Fine Good Show | 204 |
| By Jessie Wright Whitcomb | |
| Gay and Spy | 208 |
| The Ballad of a Runaway Donkey | 212 |
| By Emilie Poulsson | |
| The Three Bears | 220 |
| The Little Bear’s Story | 221 |
| By C. F. Holder | |
| The Hare and the Hedgehog | 224 |
| By The Brothers Grimm | |
| The Wee Robin’s Christmas Song | 226 |
| A Scotch Story, attributed to Robert Burns | |
| Adapted by Jennie Ellis Burdick | |
| The Fox | 228 |
| Three Companions | 229 |
| By Dinah Maria Mulock-Craik | |
| “’Fraid Cat!” | 230 |
| By Frank Munro | |
| The Spider and the Fly | 231 |
| By Mary Howitt | |
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| EVERY-DAY VERSES | |
| A Little Gentleman | 233 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| Time for Everything | 233 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| Umbrellas and Rubbers | 234 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| Whispering in School | 234 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| Recess | 235 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| After School | 235 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| Monday’s Lessons | 235 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| At Dinner | 236 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| Valor | 237 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| A Domestic Tragedy | 238 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| The Capitalist | 239 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| In Merry England | 240 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| The Goose Girl | 241 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| The Philosopher | 242 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| Thirsty Flowers | 243 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| Sharing with Others | 243 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| Pockets | 244 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| Waiting for Dinner | 244 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| The Critic | 245 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| Diplomacy | 246 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| If I Were Queen | 247 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| Thoughts in Church | 248 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
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| THE DAYS OF THE WEEK | |
| This is the Way | 249 |
| Days of Birth | 250 |
| The Washing | 250 |
| Solomon Grundy | 250 |
| Baby’s Play Days | 250 |
| Which Do You Choose? | 251 |
| Seven Little Mice | 251 |
| By Stella George Stern | |
| Visiting | 252 |
| Little Tommy’s Monday Morning | 252 |
| By Tudor Jenks | |
| St. Saturday | 254 |
| By Henry Johnstone | |
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| NUMBER RHYMES | |
| 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | 255 |
| Over in the Meadow | 255 |
| By Olive A. Wadsworth | |
| Counting Apple-Seeds | 256 |
| Twins | 257 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| The Rhyme of Ten Little Rabbits | 258 |
| By Kate N. Mytinger | |
| In July | 260 |
| By A. S. Webber | |
| The Wish of Priscilla Penelope Powers | 262 |
| By Mrs. John T. Van Sant | |
| Winkelman Von Winkel | 262 |
| By Clara Odell Lyon | |
| Ten Little Cookies | 263 |
| Our Baby | 263 |
| Long Time Ago | 264 |
| By Elizabeth Prentiss | |
| Buckle My Shoe | 264 |
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| STORIES FOR LITTLE GIRLS | |
| A Pair of Gloves | 265 |
| By H. G. Duryée | |
| A Very Little Story of a Very Little Girl | 268 |
| By Alice E. Allen | |
| Edith’s Tea Party | 269 |
| By Lois Walters | |
| Rebecca | 271 |
| By Eleanor Piatt | |
| Dorothea’s School Gifts | 272 |
| By Eunice Ward | |
| The Lost Money | 276 |
| By Bolton Hall | |
| A Dutch Treat | 277 |
| By Amy B. Johnson | |
| The Jingle of the Little Jap | 283 |
| By Isabel Eccleston Mackay | |
| The Seventh Birthday of the Little Cousin | |
| from Constantinople | 284 |
| By Emma C. Dowd | |
| Little Red Riding-Hood | 286 |
| Retold from Grimm | |
| Dolly’s Doctor | 288 |
| Thumbelina | 288 |
| By Hans Christian Andersen | |
| The Fox and the Little Red Hen | 294 |
| The Shoemaker and the Little Elves | 294 |
| By The Brothers Grimm | |
| The Gingerbread Boy | 296 |
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| STORIES FOR LITTLE BOYS | |
| Mischief | 297 |
| By Rosamond Upham | |
| Willie and His Dog Diver | 299 |
| By H. N. Powers | |
| Gordon’s Toy Castle on the Hill | 300 |
| By Everett Wilson | |
| Hans the Innocent | 302 |
| Written and Illustrated by M. I. Wood | |
| A Real Little Boy Blue | 304 |
| By Caroline S. Allen | |
| Travels of a Fox | 306 |
| Adapted by Cecilia Farwell | |
| Oeyvind and Marit | 308 |
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| HAPPY DAYS | |
| What the Cat and Hen Did | 313 |
| By Alice Ralston | |
| Dot’s Birthday Cake | 316 |
| Ned and Rover and Jack | 317 |
| I Had a Little Kitten | 318 |
| How Polly Had Her Picture Taken | 319 |
| By Everett Wilson | |
| Idle Ben | 321 |
| The Hole in the Canna-Bed | 321 |
| By Isabel Gordon Curtis | |
| The Conceited Mouse | 323 |
| By Ella Foster Case | |
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| RHYMES CONCERNING MOTHER | |
| A Boy’s Mother | 325 |
| By James Whitcomb Riley | |
| Mother | 325 |
| By Rose Fyleman | |
| The Goodest Mother | 325 |
| Mother’s Way | 326 |
| By Carrie Williams | |
| Who Is It? | 326 |
| By Ethel M. Kelley | |
| My Dearest Is a Lady | 327 |
| By Miriam S. Clark | |
| How Many Lumps? | 327 |
| When Mother Goes Away | 328 |
| By Clara Odell Lyon | |
| An Old Song—“There’s No Place Like Home!” | 328 |
| By Blanche Elizabeth Wade | |
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| UNCLES AND AUNTS AND OTHER RELATIVES | |
| Grandmother’s Memories | 329 |
| By Helen A. Byrom | |
| Great-Aunt Lucy Lee | 330 |
| By Cora Walker Hayes | |
| Our Visitors | 334 |
| By Isabel Lyndall | |
| Beautiful Grandmamma | 338 |
| Thanksgiving Day | 340 |
| By Lydia Maria Child | |
| Grandma’s Minuet | 340 |
| Aunt Jan | 341 |
| By Norman Gale | |
| After Tea | 342 |
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| AMUSING ALPHABETS | |
| Tingle, Tangle Titmouse | 343 |
| An English Alphabet | 344 |
| Nonsense Alphabet | 346 |
| Past History | 348 |
| By Edward Lear | |
| The Apple Pie | 351 |
| Who’s Who in the Zoo | 352 |
| By Carolyn Wells | |
| A Was an Archer | 357 |
| A Little Folks’ Alphabet | 358 |
| By Carolyn Wells | |
| Child Health Alphabet | 360 |
| By Mrs. Frederick Peterson | |
| Here’s A, B, C, D | 363 |
| Our Stories | 364 |