Children's Literature

SECTION II. Mother Goose Jingles and Nursery Rhymes

MOTHER GOOSE JINGLES AND NURSERY RHYMES

Bibliography 18

Introductory 19

MOTHER GOOSE (Shorter rhymes):

1. A cat came fiddling out of a barn 23

2. A diller, a dollar 23

3. As I was going to St. Ives 23

4. As I was going up Pippen Hill 23

5. As I went to Bonner 23

6. As Tommy Snooks and Bessie Brooks 23

7. A swarm of bees in May 23

8. Baa, baa, black sheep 23

9. Barber, barber, shave a pig 23

10. Birds of a feather flock together 23

11. Bless you, bless you, burnie bee 23

12. Bobby Shafto's gone to sea 24

13. Bow, wow, wow 24

14. Bye, baby bunting 24

15. Come when you're called 24

16. Cross patch 24

17. Curly locks, curly locks 24

18. Dance, little baby 24

19. Diddle, diddle, dumpling 24

20. Ding, dong, bell 24

21. Doctor Foster 24

22. Eggs, butter, cheese, bread 24

23. For every evil under the sun 24

24. Four-and-twenty tailors 25

25. Great A, little a 25

26. Hark, hark 25

27. Here sits the Lord Mayor 25

28. Here we go up, up, up 25

29. Hey! diddle, diddle 25

30. Hickery, dickery, 6 and 7 25

31. Higgledy, Piggledy 25

32. Hickory, dickory, dock 25

33. Hogs in the garden 25

34. Hot-cross buns 26

35. Hub a dub dub 26

36. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall 26

37. If all the sea were one sea 26

38. If all the world was apple-pie 26

39. If I'd as much money as I could spend 26

40. If "ifs" and "ands" 26

41. If wishes were horses 26

42. I had a little pony 26

43. I had a little hobby horse 26

44. I have a little sister 27

45. I'll tell you a story 27

46. In marble walls as white as milk 27

47. I went up one pair of stairs 27

48. Jack and Jill went up the hill 27

49. Jack be nimble 27

50. Jack Sprat could eat no fat 27

51. Knock at the door 27

52. Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home 27

53. Little boy blue, come blow your horn 27

54. Little girl, little girl, where have you been 27

55. Little Jack Horner 28

56. Little Jack Jingle 28

57. Little Johnny Pringle 28

58. Little Miss Muffet 28

59. Little Nancy Etticoat 28

60. Little Robin Redbreast 28

61. Little Tommy Tucker 28

62. Long legs, crooked thighs 28

63. Lucy Locket lost her pocket 28

64. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John 28

65. Mistress Mary, quite contrary 28

66. Multiplication is vexation 28

67. Needles and pins 29

68. Old King Cole 29

69. Once I saw a little bird 29

70. One for the money 29

71. One misty, moisty morning 29

72. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 29

73. One, two 29

74. Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man 29

75. Pease-porridge hot 29

76. Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater 30

77. Peter Piper picked a peck 30

78. Poor old Robinson Crusoe 30

79. Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been 30

80. Pussy sits beside the fire 30

81. Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross 30

82. Ride, baby, ride 30

83. Rock-a-bye, baby 30

84. Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green 30

85. See a pin and pick it up 30

86. See, saw, sacradown 31

87. Shoe the little horse 31

88. Sing a song of sixpence 31

89. Star light, star bright 31

90. The King of France went up the hill 31

91. The lion and the unicorn 31

92. The man in the moon 31

93. The north wind doth blow 31

94. The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts 31

95. There was a crooked man 31

96. There was a little boy went into a barn 32

97. There was a man and he had naught 32

98. There was a man in our town 32

99. There was an old man 32

100. There was an old woman, and what do you think 32

101. There was an old woman lived under a hill 32

102. There was an old woman of Leeds 32

103. There was an old woman of Norwich 32

104. There was an old woman tossed up in a basket 32

105. There was an old woman who lived in a shoe 33

106. There was an owl lived in an oak 33

107. This is the way the ladies ride 33

108. This little pig went to market 33

109. Three blind mice 33

110. Three wise men of Gotham 33

111. To market, to market, to buy a fat pig 33

112. Tom, Tom, the piper's son 33

113. Two-legs sat upon three-legs 33

114. When a twister a-twisting 34

115. "Willy boy, Willy boy, where are you going?" 34

WILHELMINA SEEGMILLER

116. Milkweed Seeds 34

117. An Anniversary 34

118. Twink! twink! 34

MOTHER GOOSE (Longer rhymes)

119. A Was an Apple-Pie 34

120. Tom Thumb's Alphabet 35

121. Where Are You Going 35

122. Molly and I 35

123. London Bridge 36

124. I Saw a Ship 36

125. There Was an Old Woman 36

126. Little Bo-Peep 37

127. Cock a Doodle Doo 37

128. Three Jovial Huntsmen 37

129. There Was a Little Man 37

130. Taffy 38

131. Simple Simon 38

132. A Farmer Went Trotting 38

133. Tom the Piper's Son 38

134. When I Was a Little Boy 39

135. The Babes in the Wood 39

136. The Fox and His Wife 40

137. For Want of a Nail 40

138. A Man of Words 40

139. Jemima 41

140. Mother Hubbard and Her Dog 41

141. The Courtship, Merry Marriage, and Picnic Dinner of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren 42

142. The Burial of Poor Cock Robin 44

143. Dame Wiggins of Lee, and Her Seven Wonderful Cats 45

144. This Is the House That Jack Built 47

145. The Egg in the Nest 49

146. Change About 49

SECTION III. Fairy Stories--Traditional Tales

FAIRY STORIES--TRADITIONAL TALES

Bibliography 52

Introductory 53

ENGLISH:

147. The Old Woman and Her Pig 56

148. Henny-Penny 58

149. Teeny-Tiny 59

150. The Cat and the Mouse 60

151. The Story of the Three Little Pigs 61

152. Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse 63

153. The Story of the Three Bears 64

154. The Three Sillies 67

155. Lazy Jack 69

156. The Story of Mr. Vinegar 71

157. Jack and the Beanstalk 73

158. Tom Thumb 79

159. Whittington and His Cat 84

160. Tom Tit Tot 89

FRENCH:

161. Little Red Riding Hood 92

162. True History of Little Golden Hood 94

163. Puss in Boots 97

164. Toads and Diamonds 100

165. Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper 102

166. Drakestail 106

167. Beauty and the Beast 110

NORWEGIAN:

168. Why the Bear Is Stumpy-Tailed 122

169. The Three Billy-Goats Gruff 123

170. The Husband Who Was to Mind the House 124

171. Boots and His Brothers 125

172. The Quern at the Bottom of the Sea 128

GERMAN:

173. The Traveling Musicians 131

174. The Blue Light 134

175. The Elves and the Shoemaker 136

176. The Fisherman and His Wife 138

177. Rose-Bud 142

178. Rumpelstiltskin 144

179. Snow-White and Rose-Red 146

INDIAN:

180. The Lambikin 150

181. Tit for Tat 151

182. The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal 152

183. Pride Goeth before a Fall 154

JAPANESE:

184. The Mirror of Matsuyama 156

185. The Tongue-Cut Sparrow 158

SLAVIC:

186. The Straw Ox 160

IRISH:

187. Connla and the Fairy Maiden 162

188. The Horned Women 164

189. King O'Toole and His Goose 165

SECTION IV. Fairy Stories--Modern Fantastic Tales

FAIRY STORIES--MODERN FANTASTIC TALES

Bibliography 170

Introductory 171

ABRAM S. ISAACS

190. A Four-Leaved Clover 174

I. The Rabbi and the Diadem 174

II. Friendship 175

III. True Charity 175

IV. An Eastern Garden 176

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

191. The Lord Helpeth Man and Beast 177

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

192. The Real Princess 179

193. The Emperor's New Clothes 180

194. The Nightingale 183

195. The Fir Tree 190

196. The Tinder Box 195

197. The Hardy Tin Soldier 200

198. The Ugly Duckling 203

FRANCES BROWNE

199. The Story of Fairyfoot 209

OSCAR WILDE

200. The Happy Prince 217

RAYMOND MACDONALD ALDEN

201. The Knights of the Silver Shield 223

JEAN INGELOW

202. The Prince's Dream 227

FRANK R. STOCKTON

203. Old Pipes and the Dryad 233

JOHN RUSKIN

204. The King of the Golden River 245

SECTION V. Fables and Symbolic Stories

FABLES AND SYMBOLIC STORIES

Bibliography 262

Introductory 263

ÆSOP

205. The Shepherd's Boy 266

206. The Lion and the Mouse 266

207. The Crow and the Pitcher 266

208. The Frog and the Ox 267

209. The Frogs Desiring a King 267

210. The Field Mouse and the Town Mouse 268

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI

211. The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse 268

HORACE

212. The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse 268

ÆSOP

213. Androcles 269

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