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  Speaker 1: Part one of the Real Mother Goose. This is a
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  Speaker 1: This reading by Alison Hester of Athens, Georgia. The Real
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  Speaker 1: Mother Goose by anonymous Little bo Peep. Little bo Peep
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  Speaker 1: has lost her sheep and can't tell where to find them.
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  Speaker 1: Leave them alone and they'll come home and bring their
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  Speaker 1: tails behind them. Little bo Peep fell fast asleep and
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  Speaker 1: dreamt she heard them bleeding, But when she awoke she
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  Speaker 1: found it a joke, for still they were all fleeting.
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  Speaker 1: Then up she took her little crook, determined for to
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  Speaker 1: find them. She found them, indeed, but it made her
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  Speaker 1: heart bleed, for they'd left all their tails behind them.
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  Speaker 1: It happened, and one day as bo Peep did stray
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  Speaker 1: unto a meadow hard by. There she espied their tails,
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  Speaker 1: side by side, all hung on a tree to dry.
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  Speaker 1: She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye, and over
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  Speaker 1: the hillocks she raced and tried what she could, as
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  Speaker 1: a shepherdess should that each tail should be properly placed.
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  Speaker 1: End of Little bo Peep. Little Boy Blue Little Boy Blue,
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  Speaker 1: come below your horn. The sheep's in the meadow, the
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  Speaker 1: cows in the corn. Where's the little boy that looks
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  Speaker 1: after the sheep under the haystack? Fast asleep? End of
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  Speaker 1: the Little Boy Blue, Rain, Rain, rain, go away, come
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  Speaker 1: again another day. Little Johnny wants to play. End of rain. Winter,
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  Speaker 1: cold and raw. The north wind doth blow bleak in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. Early. All the hills are covered with snow,
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  Speaker 1: and winters now come fairly. End of winter. The clock.
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  Speaker 1: There's a neat little clock in the schoolroom. It stands,
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  Speaker 1: and it points to the time with its two little hands.
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  Speaker 1: And may we like the clock, keep a face clean
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  Speaker 1: and bright, with hands ever ready to do what is right.
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  Speaker 1: End of the clock. Fingers and toes. Every lady in
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  Speaker 1: this land has twenty nails upon each hand, five and
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  Speaker 1: twenty on hands and feet. All this is true without
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  Speaker 1: the seat. End of fingers and toes. A seasonable song.
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  Speaker 1: Piping hot, smoking hot, what I've got you have not
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  Speaker 1: hot gray peas hot, hot, hot, hot, gray peas hot.
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  Speaker 1: End of a seasonable song. Dame Trot and her cat.
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  Speaker 1: Dame Trot and her cat led a peaceable life when
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  Speaker 1: they were not troubled with other folks strife. When Dame
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  Speaker 1: had her dinner, Pussy would wait and was sure to
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  Speaker 1: receive a nice piece from her plate. End of Dame
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  Speaker 1: Trot and her cat. Three children on the ice. Three
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  Speaker 1: children sliding on the ice upon a summer's day. As
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  Speaker 1: it fell out, they all fell in the rest they
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  Speaker 1: ran away. Oh, had these children been at school or
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  Speaker 1: sliding on dry ground, ten thousand pounds to one penny,
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  Speaker 1: they had not then been drowned. Ye parents who have
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  Speaker 1: children deer, and ye too, who have none. If you
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  Speaker 1: would keep them safe abroad, pray keep them safe at home.
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  Speaker 1: End of three Children on the ice. The old Woman
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  Speaker 1: under a hill. There was an old woman lived under
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  Speaker 1: a hill, and if she's not gone, she lives there still.
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  Speaker 1: End of the old Woman under a hill. Tweedle Dumb
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  Speaker 1: and tweedl d. Tweedle dumb and tweedl d resolved to
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  Speaker 1: have a battle for tweedled Dumb said, tweedled D had
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  Speaker 1: spoiled his nice new rattle. Just then flew by a
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  Speaker 1: monstrous crow as big as a tar barrel, which frightened
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  Speaker 1: both the heroes, so they quite forgot their quarrel. End
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  Speaker 1: of tweedl Dumb and tweedled cross patch, cross patch, draw
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  Speaker 1: the latch, sit by the fire and spin, Take a
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  Speaker 1: cup and rink it up. Then call your neighbors in
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  Speaker 1: end of cross patch. Oh dear, dear, dear, what can
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  Speaker 1: the matter be? Two old women got up in an
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  Speaker 1: apple tree. One came down, and the other stayed till Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: End of Oh Dear, Old mother Goose. Old mother Goose,
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  Speaker 1: when she wanted to wander, would ride through the air
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  Speaker 1: on a very fine gander. End of Old Mother Goose.
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  Speaker 1: Little Jumping Joan, Here am I little jumping Joan. When
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  Speaker 1: nobody's with me, I'm always alone? End of Little Jumping Joan.
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  Speaker 1: Robin Redbreast, Little Robin redbreast sat upon a tree. Up,
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  Speaker 1: went pussy cat down, Went he down, came pussy cat away.
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  Speaker 1: Robin ran, says, little Robin red breast, catch me if
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  Speaker 1: you can. Little Robin redbreast jumped upon a spade. Pussy
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  Speaker 1: cat jumped after him, and then he was afraid. Little
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  Speaker 1: Robin chirped and sang, And what did pussy say? Pussy
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  Speaker 1: Cat said mew mew mew, and Robin flew away. End
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  Speaker 1: of Robin Redbreast. Patty Cake, Patty Cake paddy cake baker's man.
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  Speaker 1: So I do master as fast as I can, pat
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  Speaker 1: it and prick it, and mark it with a tea,
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  Speaker 1: put it in the oven for Tommy and me. End
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  Speaker 1: of paddy cake. Money and the mayor lend me, thy
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  Speaker 1: mayor to ride a mile. She is lamed leaping over
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  Speaker 1: a style a lack, and I must keep the fare.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give thee money for thy mayor. Oh, oh, say you,
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  Speaker 1: so money will make the mayor to go. End of
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  Speaker 1: the money and the mayor a melancholy song. Trip upon
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  Speaker 1: trenches and dance upon dishes. My mother sent me for
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  Speaker 1: some barm, some barm. She bid me go lightly and
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  Speaker 1: come again quickly, for fear the young men should do
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  Speaker 1: me some harm. Yet didn't you see yet, didn't you
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  Speaker 1: see what naughty tricks they put upon me? They broke
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  Speaker 1: my pitcher and spilt the water, and huffed my mother
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  Speaker 1: and chied her daughter, and kissed my sister instead of me.
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  Speaker 1: End of a melancholy song. Jack, Jack, be nimble, Jack
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  Speaker 1: be quick, Jack, jump over the candlestick. End of Jack
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  Speaker 1: going to Saint Ives. As I was going to Saint Ives,
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  Speaker 1: I met a man with seven wives. Every wife had
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  Speaker 1: seven sacks. Every sack had seven cats. Every cat had
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  Speaker 1: seven kits. It's cats, sacks and wives. How many we're
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  Speaker 1: going to Saint Ives? End of going to Saint Ives
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  Speaker 1: thirty days Hath September thirty days Hath September, April, June,
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  Speaker 1: and November. February has twenty eight alone. All of the
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  Speaker 1: rest have thirty one, excepting leap year. That's the time
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  Speaker 1: when February days are twenty nine. End of thirty days
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  Speaker 1: Hath September. Bees. A swarm of bees in May is
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  Speaker 1: worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in
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  Speaker 1: June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees
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  Speaker 1: in July is not worth a fly. End of bees.
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  Speaker 1: Baby Dolly, Hush, baby, my Dolly. I pray you don't cry,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll give you some bread and some milk, by
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  Speaker 1: and by, or perhaps you like custard, or maybe a tart.
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  Speaker 1: Then to either You're welcome with all my heart. End
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  Speaker 1: of baby Dollie. Come out to play, girls and boys,
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  Speaker 1: come out to play. The moon doth shine as bright
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  Speaker 1: as day. Leave your supper and leave your sleep, and
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  Speaker 1: come with your playfellows into the street. Come with a whoop,
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  Speaker 1: or come with a call, come with a good will
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  Speaker 1: or not at all. Up the ladder and down the wall.
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  Speaker 1: A halfpenny roll will serve us. All you find milk
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  Speaker 1: and I'll find flour, and we'll have pudding in half
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  Speaker 1: an hour. End of. Come out to play. If wishes
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  Speaker 1: were horses. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. If
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  Speaker 1: turnips were watches, I would wear one by my side.
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  Speaker 1: And if if and ans wore pots and pans, there'd
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  Speaker 1: be no work for tinkers. End of. If wishes were horses,
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  Speaker 1: Old chairs to mend. If I'd as much money as
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  Speaker 1: I could spend, I never would cry old chairs to mend,
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  Speaker 1: old chairs to mend, old chairs to mend. I never
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  Speaker 1: would cry old chairs to mend. If I'd as much
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  Speaker 1: money as I could tell, I never would cry old
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  Speaker 1: clothes to sell, old clothes to sell old clothes to sell.
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  Speaker 1: I never would cry old clothes to sell. End of
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  Speaker 1: old chairs to mend. To market, to market, to market
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  Speaker 1: to buy a fat pig home again, home again, jiggity
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  Speaker 1: jig to market to market to buy a fat hog
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  Speaker 1: home again, Home again, jiggity jog to market to market
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  Speaker 1: to buy a plum bun home again, home again. Market
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  Speaker 1: is done. End of to market. Robin and Richard. Robin
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  Speaker 1: and Richard were two pretty men. They lay in bed
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  Speaker 1: till the clock struck ten. Then up start to Robin
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  Speaker 1: and looks at the sky. Oh, brother Richard, the sun's
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  Speaker 1: very high. You go before with the bottle and bag,
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  Speaker 1: and I will come after on little jack nag and
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  Speaker 1: of Robin and Richard. A man and a maid. There
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  Speaker 1: was a little man who wooed a little maid. And
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  Speaker 1: he said, little maid, will you wed? Wed? Wed? I
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  Speaker 1: have little more to say, so will you yay or nay?
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  Speaker 1: For least said is soonest? Mended dead dead dead. The
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  Speaker 1: little man replied, should I be your little bride? Pray?
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  Speaker 1: What must we have for to eat? Eat? Eat? Will
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  Speaker 1: the flame that you're so rich in light a fire
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  Speaker 1: in my kitchen? Or the little God of love turned
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  Speaker 1: the spit spit spit end of a man and a maid.
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  Speaker 1: The clever hen. I had a little hen, the prettiest
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  Speaker 1: ever seen. She washed me the dishes and kept the
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  Speaker 1: house clean. She went to the mill to fetch me
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  Speaker 1: some flour. She brought it home in less than an hour.
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  Speaker 1: She baked me my bread, She brewed me my ale,
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  Speaker 1: she sat by the fire and told many a fine tale.
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  Speaker 1: End of the clever hen. Here goes my lord, Here
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  Speaker 1: goes my Lord a trot a trot, A trot a trot.
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  Speaker 1: Here goes my lady a canter, a canter, a canter
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  Speaker 1: a canter. Here go my young master jockey hitch Jockie
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  Speaker 1: hitch Jackie hitch Jockie hitch. Here goes my young miss
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  Speaker 1: and amble and amble and amble and amyl. The footman
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  Speaker 1: lags behind to tipple ale and wine, and goes gallop
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  Speaker 1: a gallop, a gallop to make up his time. End
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  Speaker 1: of Here goes my Lord Lucy Lockett. Lucy Lockett lost
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  Speaker 1: her pocket. Kitty Fisher found it, nothing in it, nothing
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  Speaker 1: in it but the binding round it. End of Lucy Lockett.
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  Speaker 1: Two birds. There were two birds sat on a stone
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  Speaker 1: fa la la la la d. One flew away, and
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  Speaker 1: then there was one fa la la la la la d.
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  Speaker 1: The other bird flew after, and then there was none
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  Speaker 1: fa la la la la la d. And so the
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  Speaker 1: stone was left alone fa la la la la die.
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  Speaker 1: And of two birds, leg over, leg leg over leg
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  Speaker 1: as the dog went to dover when he came to
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  Speaker 1: a style jump he went over end of leg over leg.
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  Speaker 1: When Jenny Wren was young, Twas once upon a time,
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  Speaker 1: when Jenny Wren was young, so daintily she danced, and
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  Speaker 1: so prettily she sung. Robin Redbreast lost his heart, for
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  Speaker 1: he was a gallant bird. So he doffed his hat
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  Speaker 1: to Jenny Wren, requesting to be heard. Oh, dearest Jenny Wren,
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  Speaker 1: if you will but be mine, you shall feed on
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  Speaker 1: cherry pie and drink new currant wine. I'll dress you
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  Speaker 1: like a goldfinch or any peacock gay. So, dearest Jen,
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  Speaker 1: if you'll be mine, let us app point the day.
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  Speaker 1: Jenny blushed behind her fan, and thus declared her mind.
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  Speaker 1: Since dearest Bob, I love you well, I'll take your
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  Speaker 1: off her kind. Cherry pie is very nice, and so
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  Speaker 1: is currant wine. But I must wear my plain brown
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  Speaker 1: gown and never go too fine. End of When Jenny
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  Speaker 1: Wren was Young. The Flying Pig Dickery, Dickery dare. The
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  Speaker 1: pig flew up in the air. The man in brown
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  Speaker 1: soon brought him down. Dickery, Dickery dare. End of the
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  Speaker 1: Flying Pig. Barber Barbara Barber shave a pig how many
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  Speaker 1: hairs will make a wig four and twenty. That's enough.
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  Speaker 1: Give the barber a pinch of snuff. End of Barber
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  Speaker 1: Solomon Grundy. Solomon Grundy born on a Monday, christened on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: married on Wednesday, took ill on Thursday, worse on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: died on Saturday, buried on Sunday. This is the end
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  Speaker 1: of Solomon Grundy. End of Solomon Grundy. The Three Wise
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  Speaker 1: Men of Gotham. Three wise men of Gotham went to
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  Speaker 1: sea in a bowl. If the bowl had been stronger,
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  Speaker 1: my song had been longer. End of the Three Wise
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  Speaker 1: Men of Gotham. Hushaby hushabye, baaby on the tree top.
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  Speaker 1: When the wind blows, the cradle will rock. When the
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  Speaker 1: bell breaks, the cradle will fall down. Will come baby bell,
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  Speaker 1: cradle land all End of Hushabye. The Hunter of Rigate.
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  Speaker 1: A man went a hunting at Ryegate and wished to
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  Speaker 1: leap over a highgate. Says the owner, Go round with
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  Speaker 1: your gun and your hound, for you never shall leap
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  Speaker 1: over my gate. End of the Hunter of Reigate. Bernie B,
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  Speaker 1: Bernie B, Bernie B. Tell me when your wedding bee,
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  Speaker 1: if it be tomorrow day, take your wings and fly away.
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  Speaker 1: End of Bernie b. Little Polly Flinders. Little Polly Flinders
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  Speaker 1: sat among the cinders, warming her pretty little toes. Her
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  Speaker 1: mother came and caught her, whipped her little daughter for
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  Speaker 1: spoiling her nice new clothes. End of Little Polly Flinders.
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  Speaker 1: Pussy Cat and Queen pussy Cat, pussy Cat, Where where
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  Speaker 1: have you been? I've been to London to look at
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  Speaker 1: the Queen pussy Cat, pussy Cat. What did you there?
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  Speaker 1: I frightened a little mouse under a chair. End of
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  Speaker 1: pussy Cat and Queen. Right away, right away, right away,
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  Speaker 1: right away, Johnny shall ride and he shall have pussy
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  Speaker 1: Cat tied to one side, and he shall have little
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  Speaker 1: Dog tied to the other. And Johnny shall ride to
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  Speaker 1: see his grandmother. And of right away, ride away the winds.
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  Speaker 1: Mister East gave a feast, Mister North laid the cloth,
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  Speaker 1: Mister West did his best. Mister South burnt his mouth
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  Speaker 1: eating cold potato. End of the Winds. Pippin Hill. As
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  Speaker 1: I was going up Pippin Hill, Pippin Hill was dirty.
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  Speaker 1: There I met a pretty miss and she dropped me
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  Speaker 1: a curtsy, Little miss, pretty miss blessings light upon you.
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  Speaker 1: If I had half a crown a day, I'll spend
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  Speaker 1: it all upon you and of Pippin Hill. Just like me.
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  Speaker 1: I went up one pair of stairs just like me.
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  Speaker 1: I went up two pairs of stairs, just like me.
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  Speaker 1: I went into a room just like me. I looked
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  Speaker 1: out of a window just like me, And there I
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  Speaker 1: saw a monkey just like me, and of just like me.
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  Speaker 1: Play days? How many days has my baby to play? Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
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  Speaker 1: And of play days? Christmas? Christmas comes but once a year,
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  Speaker 1: and when it comes, it brings good cheer. End of Christmas, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, Elsbeth,
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  Speaker 1: Betsy and Bess. They all went together to seek a
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  Speaker 1: bird's nest. They found a bird's nest with five eggs in.
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  Speaker 1: They all took one and left four in. End of Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 1: High Ho the carrion crow. A carrion crow sat on
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  Speaker 1: an oak, full day, riddle, loll day, riddle high ding dough,
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  Speaker 1: watching a tailor shape his cloak. Sing high ho the
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  Speaker 1: carrion crow, full day, riddle, loll day riddle high dean doe, wife,
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  Speaker 1: Bring me my old bent bow full day, riddle loll day,
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  Speaker 1: riddle high ding doe, that I may shoot yon carrion crow,
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  Speaker 1: Sing high ho, the carrion crow, Full day, riddle, loll day,
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  Speaker 1: riddle high ding dough. The tailor he shot and missed
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  Speaker 1: his mark. Full day riddle, loll day, riddle high ding dough,
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  Speaker 1: and shot his own sow right through the heart. Sing
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  Speaker 1: high ho the carrion crow. Full day, riddle, loll day,
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  Speaker 1: riddle high ding dough. Wife, bring brandy in a spoon.
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  Speaker 1: Full day riddle loll day, riddle high ding dough for
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  Speaker 1: our old soal is in a swoon, Sing high ho.
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  Speaker 1: The carrion crow, full day riddle, loll day, riddle high
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  Speaker 1: ding dough. End of high ho the carrion crow. End
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  Speaker 1: of Part one of The Real Mother Goose. Part two
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  Speaker 1: of The Real Mother Goose. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. This
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  Speaker 1: reading by Alison Hester of Athens, Georgia, The Real Mother
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  Speaker 1: Goose by anonymous. Part two ban Berry Cross Ride a
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  Speaker 1: cockcourse to Banberry Cross, to see an old lady upon
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  Speaker 1: a white horse rings on her fingers, and bells on
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  Speaker 1: her toes. She shall have music wherever she goes. And
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  Speaker 1: of banberry cross the man in our town. There was
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  Speaker 1: a man in our town, and he was wondrous. Wise
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  Speaker 1: he jumped into a bramble bush and scratched out both
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  Speaker 1: his eyes, and he saw his eyes were out. With
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  Speaker 1: all his might and main he jumped into another bush
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  Speaker 1: and scratched him in again. End of the Man in
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  Speaker 1: our Town A b C. Grade eight, little a boutcing b.
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  Speaker 1: The cat's in the cupboard and can't see me. End
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  Speaker 1: of a B C. A needle and thread. Old mother
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  Speaker 1: Twitchet had but one eye and a long tail, which
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  Speaker 1: she let fly. And every time she went through a gap,
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  Speaker 1: a bit of her tail she left in a trap.
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  Speaker 1: End of a needle and a thread. For every evil,
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  Speaker 1: for every evil under the sun, there is a remedy,
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  Speaker 1: or there is none. If there be one, seek till
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  Speaker 1: you find it. If there be none, never mind it.
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  Speaker 1: End of for every evil. Cushy cow, cushy cow, Bonnie,
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  Speaker 1: let down thy milk, and I will give thee a
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  Speaker 1: gown of silk, a gown of silk, and a silver tree.
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  Speaker 1: If thou wilt let down thy milk to me. End
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  Speaker 1: of cushy cow Sea saw see saw Marjorie Dall sold
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  Speaker 1: her bed and lay upon straw. End of Sea Saw.
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  Speaker 1: Georgie Porgie Georgie Porgy pudding in pie kissed the girls
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  Speaker 1: and made them cry. When the boys came out to play,
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  Speaker 1: Georgie Porgy ran away. End of Georgie Porgy. We Willie Winkie,
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  Speaker 1: Wee Williewinky runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs in
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  Speaker 1: his nightgown, rapping at the window, crying through the lock.
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  Speaker 1: Are the children in their beds now? It's eight o'clock?
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  Speaker 1: End of Wee Willie Winkie. Robin a Bobbin, Robin a
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  Speaker 1: bobbin bent his bow shot at a pigeon and killed
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  Speaker 1: a crow. End of Robin a Bobin. John Smith is
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  Speaker 1: John Smith? Within? Yes that he is? Can he set
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  Speaker 1: a shoe? I marry too herey nail there and nail
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  Speaker 1: tick tack two? End of John Smith? About the bush,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: About the bush, Willie, About the beehive, About the bush, Willie,
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  Speaker 1: I'll meet thee alive. End of about the bush. Five toes.
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  Speaker 1: This little pig went to market. This little pig stayed home.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: This little pig had roast beef. This little pig had nine.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: This little pig said, peewee, I can't find my way home.
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  Speaker 1: End of five toes. Three blind mice. Three blind mice,
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  Speaker 1: See how they run. They all ran after the farmer's wife,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: who cut their tails with a carving knife. Did you
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: ever see such a thing in your life? As three
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  Speaker 1: blind mice? End of three blind mice? Simple Simon. Simple
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Simon met a pieman going to the fair, says Simple
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Simon to the pieman. Let me taste your wear, says
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the pieman to Simple Simon, show me first your penny,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: says Simple Simon to the pieman. Indeed, I have not
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: any Simple Simon went a fishing for to catch a whale.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: All the water he could find was in his mother's pail.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Simple Simon went to look if plums grew on a thistle.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: He pricked his fingers very much, which made poor Simon whistle.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: He went to catch a dicky bird, and thought he
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: could not fail because he had a little salt to
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: put upon its tail. He went for water with a sieve,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: but soon it ran all through. And now poor simple
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Simon bids you all a do And of Simple Simon
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: doctor Foster. Doctor Foster went to Gloucester in a shower
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: of rain. He stepped in a puddle up to his middle,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: and never went there again. End of Doctor Foster. A
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: little man. There was a little man, and he had
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: a little gun, and his bullets were made of lead,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: lead lead. He went to the brook and saw a
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: little duck and got it right through the head, headhead.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: He carried it home to his old wife Joan, and
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: bade her a fire to make, make, make to roast
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the little duck he had shot in the brook, And
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: he'd go and fetch the drake, drake, drake. The drake
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: was a swimming with his curly tail. The little man
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: made his mark, mark mark. He let off his gun,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: but he fired too soon, and the drake flew away
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: with a quack, quack quack. End of little man Jerry Hall,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Jerry Hall. He was so small a rat could eat
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: him hat and all. End of Jerry Hall. Lengthening Days.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: As the days grow longer, the storms grow stronger. End
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: of lengthening Days. Diddle diddle, dumpling, diddle, diddle, dumpling. My
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: on John went to bed with his breeches on one
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: stalking off one stalking on diddle Diddle dumpling, my son John.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: End of diddle diddle dumpling. The black hen, Hickety Pickety,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: my black hen. She lays eggs for gentlemen. Gentlemen come
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: every day to see what my black hen doth lay.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: End of the black hen. The mist a hell full,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: a hole full, yet you cannot catch a bowl full.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: End of the mist. Miss Muffet, Little Miss Muffett sat
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: on a tuffet, eating of curds and whey. There came
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: a big spider and sat down beside her, and frightened
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Miss Muffett away. End of Miss Muffet. Curly locks, curly locks,
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  Speaker 1: curly locks. Thou be mine. Thou shalt not wash the dishes,
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  Speaker 1: nor yet feed the swine, but sit on a cushion
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: and sew a fine seam, and feed upon strawberries, sugar
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and cream. End of curly locks. A candle, little nanny
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: eddycoat and a white petticoat, and a red nose. The
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: longer she stands, the shorter she grows. End of a candle.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Humpty Dumpty, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: had a great fall. All the King's horses, and all
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the king's men cannot put Humpty Dumpty together again. End
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: of Humpty Dumpty. Pins. See a pin and pick it
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: up all the day, you'll have good luck. See a
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: pin and let it lay. Bad luck you'll have all
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: the day. End of pins. One two three, one, two, three,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: four five. Once I caught a fish alive six seven, eight, nine, ten,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: but I let it go again. Why did you let
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: it go? Because it bit my finger? So which finger
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: did it bite? The little one upon the right? And
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: of one two three, the dove and the wren. The
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: dove says coo coo. What shall I do? I can
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: scarce maintain two poo pooh, says the wren. I've got
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: ten and keep them all like a gentleman. And of
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the dove and the wren. Shall we go a shearing
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: old woman, old woman? Shall we go a shearing speak
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: a little louder, sir, I'm very thick of hearing, old woman,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: old woman? Shall I kiss you dearly? Thank you kind sir?
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I hear you very clearly? End up? Shall we go?
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: A shearing old mother Hubbard? Old mother Hubbard went to
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the cupboard to give her poor dog a bone, but
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: when she got there, the cupboard was bare, and so
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the poor dog had none. She went to the baker's
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: to buy him some bread. When she came back, the
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: dog was dead. She went to the undertakers to buy
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: him a coffin. When she got back, the dog was laughing.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: She took a clean dish to get him some tripe.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: When she came back, he was smoking up HiPE. She
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: went to the alehouse to get him some beer. When
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: she came back, the dog sat in a chair. She
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: went to the tavern for some white wine and red.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: When she came back, the dog stood on his head.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: She went to the hatters to buy him a hat.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: When she came back, he was feeding the cat. She
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: went to the barbers to buy him a wig. When
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: she came back, he was dancing a jig. She went
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: to the fruiterers to buy him some fruit. When she
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: came back, he was playing the flute. She went to
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the tailor's to buy him a coat. When she came back,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: he was riding a goat. She went to the cobblers
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: to buy him some shoes. When she came back, he
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: was reading the news. She went to the seamsters to
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: buy him some linen. When she came back, the dog
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: was a spinning. She went to the hosiers to buy
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: him some hose. When she came back, he was dressed
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: in his clothes. The dame made a curtsy. The dog
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: made a bow. The dame said, your servant. The dog
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: said bow wow. End of old Mother Hubbard, goosey, goosey gander, goosey,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: goosey gander. Wither dost thou wander upstairs and downstairs? And
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: in my lady's chamber there I met an old man
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: who wouldn't say his prayers. I took him by the
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: left leg and threw him down the stairs. End of goosey,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: goosey gander. Blue Bell Boy. I had a little boy
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: and called him blue Bell. Gave him a little work.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: He did it very well. I bade him go upstairs
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: to bring me a gold pen and coal scuttle fell
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: he up to his little chin. He went to the
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: garden to pick a little sage. He tumbled on his
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: nose and fell into a rage. He went to the
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: cellar to draw a little beer, and quickly did return
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: to say there was none there. End of blue Bell Boy.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Why may not I love Johnny? Johnny shall have a
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: new bonnet, and Johnny shall go to the fair, and
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Johnny shall have a blue ribbon to tie up his
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: bonnie brown hair. And why may not I love Johnny?
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: And why may not Johnny love me? And why may
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: not I love Johnny as well as another body? And
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: here's a leg for a stocking, and here's a foot
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: for a shoe, and he has a kiss for his
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: daddy and two for his mommy. I trow, and why
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: may not I love Johnny? And why may not Johnny
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: love me? And why may not I love Johnny as
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: well as another body? End of Why may not I
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Love Johnny? Jack Jelf? Little Jack Jelf was put on
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the shelf because he could not spell pie. When his aunt,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Missus Grace saw his sorrowful face, she could not help saying,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: oh pie. And since Master Jelf was put on the
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: shelf because he could not spell pie, let him stand
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: there so grim and know more about him, for I
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: wish him a very goodbye. End of Jack Jelf. Jack Spratt.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Jack Spratt could eat no fat, his wife could eat
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: no lean, And so betwixt them both they licked the
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: platter clean. End of Jack Spratt. Daffodils. Daffy down Dilly
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: has come to town in a yellow petticoat and a
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: green gown. End of Daffodils. Hushabye, Hushabye, Baby life stal
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: with thy daddy. Thy mammy has gone to the mill
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: to get some meal to bake a cake. So pray
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: my dear baby lie still. End of hush Abye. The
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: girl in the lane, The girl in the lane that
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: couldn't speak plain cried gobble, gobble, gobble. The man on
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: the hill that couldn't stand still went hobble, hobble, hobble.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: End of the girl in the lane. Hushaby Hushabye, Baby
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Daddy is near. Mama is a lady, and that's very clear.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: End of hushaby Nancy Dawson. Nancy Dawson was so fine
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: she wouldn't get up to serve the swine. She lies
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: in bed till eight or nine. So it's oh, poor
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Nancy Dawson. And do ye kin Nancy Dawson, honey. The
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: wife who sells the barley honey. She won't get up
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: to feed her swine. And do ye kin Nancy Dlson honey.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: End of Nancy Dawson Handy pandy, Handy pandy. Jack a
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: dandy loves plum cake and sugar candy. He bought some
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: at a grocer's shop, and out he came hop hop Hop.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: End of handy Pandy. The alphabet A, B, C and
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: D pray. Playmates agree, E, F and G. Well, so
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: it shall be j K and L in peace. We
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: will dwell, M N and O to play. Let us
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: go p q R and S love. May we possess
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: w X and Y will not quarrel or die Z
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: and ampersand go to school. At command end of the
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: alphabet Jack and Jill. Jack and Jill went up the
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: hill to fetch a pel of water. Jack fell down
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: and broke his crown, and Jill came tumbling after. Then up,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Jack got and off did trot as fast as he
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: could caper to Old Dame Daub, who patched his knob
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: with vinegar and brown paper. End of Jack and Jill.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Dance to your daddy. Dance to your daddy, My bonny laddie,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: dance to your daddy, my bonny lamb. You shall get
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: a fishy on a little dishy. You shall get a
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: fishy when the boat comes home. End of Dance to
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: your daddy. One misty moisty morning, one misty moisty morning,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: when cloudy was the weather, I chanced to meet an
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: old man clothed in all leather. He began to compliment,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: and I begin to grin, how do you do? And
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: how do you do? And how do you do? Again?
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: And of one misty moisty morning, Robin Hood and little John,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: robin Hood. Robin Hood is in the mickle wood, little John,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Little John, he to the town is gone, robin Hood,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: robin Hood, telling his beads all in the greenwood, among
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: the green weeds, Little John, little John. If he comes
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: no more, robin Hood, robin Hood, we shall fret full sore.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: End of robin Hood and Little John. Rain, Rain, Rain,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: go to Spain and never come back again. End of
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Rain the Robins. A Robin and a Robin's son once
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: went to town to buy a bond. They couldn't decide
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: on plumber plain, and so they went back home again.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: End of the Robins. The old woman from France. There
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: came an old woman from France who talked grown up
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: children to dance, but they were so stiff she sent
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: them home in a sniff. This sprightly old woman from France.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: The Old Man. There was an old man in a
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: velvet coat. He kissed a maid and gave her a groat.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: The groat it was cracked and would not go. Ah,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: old man, do you serve me so? End of Old Man?
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Teeth and Goms. Thirty white horses upon a red hill.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Now they tramp, now they champ, Now they stand still.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: End of teeth and Goms. End of Part two of
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Mother Goose. Part three of the Real Mother Goose. This
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: is a LibriVox request. All LibriVox recordings are in the
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. This reading by Alison Hester of Athens, Georgia,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: The Real Mother Goose, written by anonymous. Part three My Kitten, Hey,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: my kitten, My kitten, and hey, my kitten, My dearie,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: such a sweet pet as this was neither far nor
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: neary end of My Kitten the other little tune. I
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: won't be my father's Jack, I won't be my father's Jill.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I will be the fiddler's wife and have music when
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I will to other little tune, to other little tune,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: pree thee love play me to other little tune? And
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: of to other little tune. If all the seas were
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: one sea. If all the seas were one sea, what
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: a great sea that would be. And if all the
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: trees were one tree, what a great tree that would be.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: And if all the axes were one axe, what a
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: great axe that would be. And if all the men
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: were one man, what a great man he would be.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: And if the great man took the great axe and
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: cut down the great tree and let it fall into
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: the great sea, what a splish splash that would be?
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: End of if all the seas were one c Pancake day,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: great a little a. This is pancake Day. Toss the
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: ball high, throw the ball low. Those that come after
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: may sing high ho End of pancake Day. Forehead, eyes, cheeks, nose, mouth,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: and chin. Here sits the lord mayor. Here sit his
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: two men. Here sits the cock, Here sits the hen.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Here sits the little chickens. Here they run in chin chopper,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: chin chopper, chin chopper chin. End of forehead, eyes, cheeks, nose, mouth,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: and chin. A plum pudding flower of England, fruit of
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Spain melts together and a shower of rain put in
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: a bag tied round with a string. If you'll tell
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: me this riddle, I'll give you a ring. End of
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: a plum pudding. The lion and the unicorn. The lion
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: and the unicorn were fighting for the crown. The lion
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: beat the unicorn all around the town. Some gave gave
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: them white bread, and some gave them brown. Some gave
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: them plum cake, and sent them out of town. End
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: of the Lion and the Unicorn. The merchants of London. Hey, diddle,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: dinkety poppety pet. The merchants of London. They wear scarlet
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: silk in the collar and gold in the hem. So
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: merely march the merchant men. End of the merchants of London.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: A sure test. If you are to be a gentleman,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: as I suppose you'll be, you'll neither laugh nor smile
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: for a tickling of the knee. End of a sure test.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Lock and key. I am a gold lock. I am
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: a gold key. I am a silver lock. I am
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: a silver key. I am a brass lock. I am
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: a brass key. I am a lead lock. I am
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: a lead key. I am a don lock. I am
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: a donkey. End of lock and key. I'll tell you
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: a story. I'll tell you a story about Jack and Nory,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: And now my story's begun. I'll tell you another about
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: his brother, And now my story is done. End of
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you a story. I had a little husband.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: I had a little husband, no bigger than my thumb.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: I put him in a pint pot, and there I
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: bid him drum. I bought a little handkerchief to wipe
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: his little nose, and a pair of little garters to
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: tie his little hose. And of I had a little husband.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: A strange old woman. There was an old woman. And
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: what do you think? She lived upon nothing but victuals
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: and drink. Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: And yet this old woman could never be quiet. End
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: of a strange old woman to Babylon. How many miles
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: is it to Babylon? Threescore miles? And ten? Can I
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: get there by candlelight? Yes? And back again. If your
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: heels are nimble and light, you may get there by candlelight.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: End of to Babylon. Cry Baby, Cry baby, cry. Put
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: your finger in your eye and tell your mother it
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: wasn't I. End of Cry baby? Sleep baby, sleep, sleep, baby, sleep.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Our cottage veil is deep. The little lamb is on
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: the green with wooly fleece, so soft and clean. Sleep
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Baby sleep, Sleep, Baby sleep down where the woodvines creep
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: be always like the lamb, so mild, a kind and
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: sweet and gentle child sleep, Baby sleep, and of sleep,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Baby Sleep. Bob Bob Black Sheep, Bob Bob black Sheep,
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Have you any wool? Yes, Mary, have I three bags full?
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: One for my master, one for my dame, but none
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: for the little boy who cries in the lane. End
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: of Bob Bob Black Sheep. Little Fred. When Little Fred
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: went to bed, he always said his prayers. He kissed
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: Mama and then Papa, and straightway went upstairs. End of
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Little Fred. Doctor Fell. I do not like thee doctor fell.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: The reason why I cannot tell, but this I know,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: and know full well. I do not like thee doctor fell.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: End of Doctor Fell. A counting out rhyme hickory dickery
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: six and seven, alabone, crack a bone, ten and eleven,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: spend spun muska done, Twiddle them, twaddle them twenty one
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: end of a counting out rhyme. The cat and the fiddle,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Hey diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle. The cow
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: such a sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: End of the cat and the fiddle. Buttons, buttons a
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: farthing a payer? Come, who will buy them of me?
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: They're round and sound and pretty and fit for girls
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: of the city. Come, who will buy them of me?
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Buttons a farthing a payer? End of buttons. Jack and
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: his fiddle, Jackie, Come and give me thy fiddle, if
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: ever thou mean to thrive. Nay, I'll not give my
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: fiddle to any man alive. If I should give my fiddle,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: they'll think that I've gone mad. For many a joyous
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: day my fiddle and I have had. And of Jack
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: and his fiddle. Hot boiled beans. Ladies and gentlemen come
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: to supper, Hot boiled beans, and a very good butter.
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  Speaker 1: End of hot boiled beans. Little Pussy. I like little Pussy.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: Her coat is so warm, and if I don't hurt her,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: she'll do me no harm. So I'll not pull her
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: tail nor drive her away. But Pussy, and I very
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: gently will play end of little Pussy. Sing a song
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: of sixpence, Sing a song of sixpence, A pocketful of
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: rye four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: the pie was opened, the birds begin to sing. Was
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: not that a dainty dish to set before the king.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: The King was in his counting house, counting out his money.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: The queen was in the parlor eating bread and honey.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: When down came a blackbird and snapped off her nose,
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: and of sing a song of sixpence. Tommy Tittlemouse, Little
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Tommy Tittlemouse lived in a little house. He caught fishes
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: and other men's ditches. End of Tommy Tittlemouse. The Derby Ram.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: As I was going to Derby all on a market day,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: I met the finest ram, Sir, that ever was fed
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: upon Hay, upon Hay, upon Hay, upon Hay. I met
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: the finest ram, Sir, that was ever fed upon hay.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: This ram was fat behind, sir, This ram was fat before.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: This ram was ten yards round, sir. Indeed he was
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: no more, no more, no more, no more. This ram
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: was ten yards round, sir, Indeed he was no more.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: The horns that grew on his head, Sir, they were
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: so wondrous, high as i've been plainly told, sir. They
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: reached up to the sky, the sky, the sky, the sky.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: As I have been plainly told, sir, they reached up
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: to the sky. The tale that grew from his back, Sir,
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: was six yards and an l. And it was sent
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: to Derby to toll the market bell. The bell, the bell,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: the bell, And it was sent to Derby to toll
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: the market bell. End of the Derby Ram. The mulberry bush.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Here we go round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush,
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: the mulberry bush. Here we go round the mulberry bush.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: On a cold and frosty morning. This is the way
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: we wash our hands. Wash our hands, Wash our hands.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: This is the way we wash our hands on a
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: cold and frosty morning. This is the way we wash
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: our clothes. Wash our clothes, Wash our clothes. This is
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: the way we wash our clothes on a cold and
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: frosty morning. This is the way we go to school.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Go to school, Go to school. This is the way
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: we go to school on a cold and frosty morning.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: This is the way we come out of school. Come
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: out of school, Come out of school. This is the
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: way we come out of school on a cold and
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: frosty morning. End of the mulberry bush. Young lambs to sell.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: If I had as much money as I could tell,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: I never would cry young lambs to sell. Young lambs
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: to sell, young lambs to sell. I never would cry
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: young lambs to sell. End of young lambs to sell.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: The hobby Horse. I had a little hobby horse, and
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: it was dapple gray. Its head was made of pea straw,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: its tail was made of hat. I sold it to
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: an old woman for a copper goat, and I'll not
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: sing my song again without another coat. End of the
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: hobby Horse, Old Woman, Old Woman. There was an old
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: woman tossed in a basket seventeen times high as the moon.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: But where she was going no mortal could tell, for
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: under her arms she carried a broom, Old Woman, Old Woman.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Old woman said, I whither o whither? Oh whither so
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: high to sweep the cobwebs from the sky, And I'll
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: be with you by and by. End of Old Woman,
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: Old Woman. The Boy and the sparrow. A little cock
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: sparrow sat on a green tree, Andie chirruped, Danny chirruped.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: So merry was he. A naughty boy came with his
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: wee bow and arrow determined to shoot this little cock sparrow.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: This little cock sparrow shall make me a stew, and
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: his giblets shall make me a little pie too. Oh no,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: says the sparrow, I won't make a stew. So he
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: flapped his wings, and away he flew. End of the
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: boy and the sparrow. Two pigeons. I had two pigeons,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: bright and gay. They flew from me the other day.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: What was the reason they did go? I cannot tell,
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: for I do not know. End of two pigeons. The
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: first of May. The fair maid who the first of
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: May goes to the fields at the break of day
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: and washes in dew from the hawthorn tree, will ever
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: after handsome bee. End of the first of May. The
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: house that Jack built. This is the house that Jack built.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: This is the malt that lay in the house that
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Jack built. This is the rat that ate the malt
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: that lay in the house that Jack built. This is
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: that lay in the house that Jack built. This is
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: that ate the malt that lay in the house that
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Jack built. This is the cow with the crumpled horn
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: that tossed the dog that worried the cat that killed
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: the rat that ate the malt that lay in the
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: house that Jack built. This is the maiden, all forlorn,
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: that milked the cow with the crumpled horn that tossed
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: that ate the malt that lay in the house that
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: Jack built. This is the man, all tattered and torn,
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: that kissed the maiden, all forlorn, that milked the cow
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: with the crumpled horn, that tossed, the dog that worried
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: that lay in the house that Jack built. This is
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: the pre all shaven and shorn, that married the man,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: all tattered and torn, that kissed the maiden, all forlorn,
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: that milked the cow with the crumpled horn that tossed
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: that ate the malt that lay in the house that
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: Jack built. This is the cock that crowed in the
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: moon that walked the priest, all shaven and shorn, that
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: married the man, all tattered and torn, that kissed the maiden,
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: all forlorn that milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: that tossed the dog that worried the cat that killed
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: the rat, that ate the malt that lay in the
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: house that Jack built. This is the farmer sowing the
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: corn that kept the cock that crowed in the morn,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: that waked the priest, All shaven and shorn, that married
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: the man, all tattered and torn that kissed the maiden,
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: All forlorn that milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: that tossed the dog that worried the cat that killed
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: the rat, that ate the malt that lay in the
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: house that Jack built. End of the house that Jack built.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: Sulky Sue. Here's sulky Sue. What shall we do? Turn
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: her face to the wall till she comes to End
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: of Sulky Sue. Saturday Sunday. On Saturday night shall be
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: all my care to powder my locks and curl my hair.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: On Sunday morning, my love will come in when he
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: will marry me with a gold ring. End of Saturday Sunday.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: End of Part three of Mother Goose, Part four of
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: the Real Mother Goose. This is a LibriVox recording. All
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please please visit LibriVox dot org. This
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: reading by Alison Hester of Athens, Georgia, The Real Mother
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: Goose by Anonymous, Part four, The Old Woman and the Pedlar.
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: There was an old woman, as I've heard tell, she
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: went to the market her eggs for to sell. She
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: went to the market all on a market day, and
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: she fell asleep on the King's Highway. There came by
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: a pedlar whose name was Stout. He cut her petticoats
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: all round about. He cut her petticoats up to the knees,
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: which made the old woman to shiver and freeze. When
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: the little old woman did first awake, she began to shiver,
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: and she began to shake. She began to wonder, and
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: she began to cry, low, co mercy on me. This
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: can't be I. But if it be I, as I
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: hope it be, I've a little dog at home, and
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: he'll know me. If it be I, he'll wag his tail.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: And if it be not I, he'll loudly bark and
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: wall Home went the little woman all in the dark.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: Up got the little dog, and he began to bark
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: he began to bark, so she began to cry, lor
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: a mercy on me. This is none of I, and
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: of the old woman and the peddler. Little Jenny Wren,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: Little Jenny Wren fell sick. Upon a time in came
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: Robin redbreast, and brought her cake and wine. Eat well
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: of my cake, Jenny, drink well of my wine. Thank you, Robin, kindly,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: you shall be mine. Jenny got well and stood upon
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: her feet and told Robin plainly she loved him not
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: a bit. Robin, being angry, hopped upon a twig, saying,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: out upon you, fly upon you, bold faced jig. End
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: of Little Jenny Wren. The Little Moppet. I had a
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: little moppet and put it in my pocket and fed
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: it with corn and hay. There came a proud beggar
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: and swore he should have her, and stole my little
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: moppet away. End of the Little Moppet. Bobby Snooks. Little
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: Bobby Snooks was fond of his books and loved by
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: his usher and master. But naughty Jack Spry. He got
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: a black eye and carries his nose in a plaster.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: End of Bobby Snooks. The Man in the Moon, The
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: Man in the moon came tumbling down and asked which
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: way to Norwich. He went by the south and burnt
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: his mouth with eating cold peas poory end of the
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: man in the moon. I saw a ship, a sailing.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: I saw a ship, a sailing, a sailing on the sea,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: And oh, it was laden with pretty things for thee.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: There were comfits in the cabin and apples in the hold,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: and sails were made of silk, and the masts were
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: made of gold. The four and twenty sailors that stood
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: between the decks were four and twenty white mice with
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: chains about their necks. The captain was a duck with
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: his packet on his back. And when the ship began
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: to move, the captain said, quack, quack. End of I
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: saw a ship, a sailing, a walnut, as soft as silk,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: as white as milk, as bitter as a gall, A
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: strong wall, and a green coat covers me all end
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: of a walnut. One he loves one, he loves two,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: he loves three, he loves they say four he loves
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: with all his heart. Five he casts away, six he
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: loves seven, she loves eight. They both love. Nine. He
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: comes ten, he tarries eleven he courts twelve he marries.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: End of one. He loves that bat bat bat. Come
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: under my hat, and I'll give you a slice of bacon.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: And when I bake, I'll give you a cake. If
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: I am not mistaken. End of bat bat. My love
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: saw ye aught of my love, a coming from the market,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: A peck of meal upon her back, a baby in
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: her basket. Saw ye aught of my love, a coming
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: from the market. End of my Love. The Man of Bombay.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: There was a fat man of Bombay who was smoking
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: one sunshiny day, when a bird called a snipe flew
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: away with his pipe, which vexed the fat man of Bombay.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: End of the Man of Bombay. Hark, Hark, Hark, hark.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: The dogs do bark. Beggars are coming to town, some
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: in jags, and some in rags, and some in velvet gown.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: End of hark hark. The heart, the heart he loves,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: the high wood, the hair she loves, the hill, the
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: night he loves his bright sword. The lady loves her will.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: End of the Heart. Poor old Robinson Crusoe, Poor old
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: Robinson Crusoe, Poor old Robinson Crusoe. They made him a
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: coat of an old nannygoat. I wonder why they should
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: do so with a ring ating a tang, and a
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: ring a ting a tang, Poor Old Robinson Crusoe. End
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: of Poor Old Robinson Crusoe. My Maid Mary, My Maid Mary,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: She minds the dairy while I go a hoeing and
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: a mowing each morn, gaily run the reel and the
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: little spinning wheel, while I am singing and mowing my corn.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: End of My Maid Mary. A sieve A riddle, A
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: riddle as I suppose a hundred eyes and never a nose.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: End of a sieve. A difficult rhyme? What is the
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: rhyme for Poorringer? The king? He had a daughter fair
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: and gave the Prince of Orange her End of a
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: difficult rhyme? Pretty John Watts, Pretty John Watts, We are
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: true rats. Will you drive them out of the house?
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: We have mice too, in plenty that feast in the pantry.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: But let them stay and nibble away? What harm in
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: a little brown mouse? End of Pretty John Watts. Good advice.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: Come when you're called, do what your bid, Shut the
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: door after you, and never be chid. End of good Advice.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: Buy baby bunting, Buy baby bunting. Father's gone a hunting,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: mother's gone a milking, sister's gone a silking, and brother's
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: gone to buy a skin to wrap the baby bunting
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: in end of Buy Baby Bunting. Tom Tom, the Piper's son. Tom, Tom,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: the Piper's son, stole a pig and away he run.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: The pig was eat and Tom was beat and Tom
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: ran crying down the street. End of Tom Tom the
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: Piper's Son. I loved sixpence. I love sixpence, a jolly,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: jolly sixpence. I love sixpence as my life. I spent
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: a penny of it. I spent a penny of it.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: I took a penny home to my wife. Oh my
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: little fourpence, A jolly jolly fourpence. I love fourpence as
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: my life. I spent twopence of it. I spent twopence
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: of it, and I took twopence home to my wife.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: End of I Love sixpence. Comical Folk. In a cottage
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: in Fife lived a man and his wife who believed
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: me were comical folk, for to people's surprise, they both
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: saw with their eyes, and their tongues moved whenever they
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: spoke when they were asleep I'm told that to keep
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: their eyes open, they could not contrive. They both walked
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: on their feet, and twas thought what they eat helped
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: with drinking to keep them alive. End of comical folk
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: cock Crow. Cocks crow in the morn to tell us
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: to rise, and he who lies late will never be wise.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: For early to bed and early to rise is the
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: way to be healthy and wealthy and wise. End of
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: cock Crow. The Three Sons. There was an old woman
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: had three sons, Jerry and James and John. Jerry was
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: hanged and James was drowned. John was lost and was
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: never found. And there was an end of her three sons,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: Jerry and James and John. End of The Three Sons
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: Tommy Snooks. As Tommy Snooks and Bessie Brooks were walking
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: out one Sunday, says Tommy Snooks to best see Brooks
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: will marry me on Monday. End of Tommy Snook's The Blacksmith.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: Robert Barnes, my fellow, fine, can you shoe this horse
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: of mine? Yes, good sir, that I can, as well
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: as any other man. There's a nail and there's a prod. Now,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: good sir, your horse is shod. End of the blacksmith.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: One two buckle my shoe, one two buckle my shoe,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: three four knock at the door, five six, pick up stix,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: seven eight, Lay them straight, nine, ten, a good fat hen, eleven, twelve,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: dig and delve thirteen fourteen maids according fifteen, sixteen maids
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: in the kitchen, seventeen eighteen maids awaiting, nineteen twenty. My
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: plate's empty, end of one two buckle my shoe, two
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: gray kits, The two gray kits and the gray kit's
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: mother all went over the bridge together. The bridge broke down,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: they all fell in. May the rats go with you,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: says Tom boleyn end of two gray kits, pears or pears,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: twelve pears hanging high, twelve nights, riding by each night,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: took a pair and yet left a dozen there end
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: of pears or pears bell Isle, at the Siege of
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: bell Isle. I was there all the while, all the while,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: all the while, at the siege of bell Isle, End
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: of bell Isle. Cock a doodle do, Cock a doodle do.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: My dame has lost her shoe. My master's lost his fiddlestick,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: and knows not what to do. Cock a doodle do.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: What is my dame to do till master finds his fiddlestick.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: She'll dance without her shoe. End of Cockadoodle Doo, Old
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: King Coal, Old King Cole was a merry old soul,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: And a merry old soul was he. He called for
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: his pipe, and he called for his bowl, and he
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: called for his fiddlers. Three, and every fiddler he had
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: a fine fiddle, and a very fine fiddle had he
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: tweet tweedled d tweedled d went the fiddlers. Oh there's
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: none so rare as can compare with King Cole and
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: his fiddlers. Three. End of Old King Coal. Pussy Cat Mew.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: Pussy cat mew jumped over a coal and in her
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: best petticoat burnt a great hole. Poor pussy's weeping. She'll
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: have no more milk until her best petticoat's mended with silk.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: End of pussy cat mew see see see see what
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: shall I see a horse's head where his tail should be?
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  Speaker 1: End of c c A well as round as an apple,
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  Speaker 1: as deep as a cup, and all the King's horses
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  Speaker 1: can't fill it up. End of a well dapple Gray.
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  Speaker 1: I had a little pony. His name was dapple Gray.
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  Speaker 1: I lent him to a lady to ride a mile away.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: She whipped him, she slashed him, she rode him through
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: the mire. I would not lend my pony now for
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: all the ladies hire. End of Dapple Gray. Coffee and Tea. Mollie,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: my sister and I fell out. And what do you
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: think it was all about? She loved coffee and I
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: loved tea, and that was the reason we couldn't degree.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: End of Coffee and Tea. A cock and bull story.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: The cocks on the housetop blowing his horn, The bulls
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: in the barn a threshing of corn. The maids in
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: the meadows are making of hay. The ducks in the
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: river are swimming away. End of a cock and bull story.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: The little Girl with a curl. There was a little
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: girl who had a little curl right in the middle
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: of her forehead. When she was good, she was very,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: very good, And when she was bad she was horrid.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: End of the Little Girl with a curl. For Baby,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: you shall have an apple, you shall have a plum.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: You shall have a rattle when Papa comes home. End
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: of for Baby Dreams. Friday Night's Dream On Saturday told
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: is sure to come true. Be it never so old?
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: End of dreams myself. As I walked by myself and
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: talked to myself, myself said, unto me, look to thyself,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: take care of thyself, for nobody cares for thee. I
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: answered myself and said to myself in the self same repartee,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: look to thyself, or not look to thyself, the self
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: same thing will be end of myself. Candle saving to
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: make your candles last for I, you wives and maids,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: give ero to put them out, the only way, says
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: honest John Buldero. End of candle saving. Over the water,
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: over the water, and over the sea, and over the
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: water to Charlie. I'll have none of your nasty beef,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: nor I'll have none of your barley. But I'll have
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: some of your very best flower to make a white
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: cake for my Charlie. End of over the water. Fears
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: and tears. Tommy's tears and Mary's fears will make them
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: old before their years. And of fears and tears. The
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: kill Kenny cats. There were once two cats of kill Kenny.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: Each thought there was one cat too many. So they fought,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: and they fit, and they scratched, and a bit till,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: excepting their nails and the tips of their tails. Instead
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: of two cats, there weren't any. End of the kill
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: Kenny cats. A week of Birthdays. Monday's child is fair
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: is full of woe. Thursday's child has far to go,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: for its living. But the child that's born on the
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: Sabbath Day is bonnie and blithe and good and gay.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: End of a week of Birthday. A chimney black within
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: and red without four corners round about. End of a chimney. Ladybird, Ladybird, Ladybird,
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: fly away home. Your house is on fire, your children
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: all gone, all but one. And her name is Ann
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: and she crept under the pudding pan. End of Ladybird.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: Old Grimes, Old Grimes is dead. That good old man
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: we ne'er shall see him more. He used to wear
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: a long brown coat, all buttons down before end of
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: Old Grimes. Interoymintory, interremintory, cuttery, corn, apple seed and apple
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: forn wire, briar limberlock. Five geese in a flock sit
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: and sing by a spring out and in again. End
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: of Interimentary the man who had not. There was a
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: man and he had not, and robbers came to rob him.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: He crept up to the chimney pot, and then they
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: thought they had him, but he got down on the
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: other side, and then they could not find him. He
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: ran fourteen miles in fifteen days and never looked behind him.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: End of the Man who had not. The tailors and
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: the snail. Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: The best man among them durst not touch her tail.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: She put out her horns like a little kalo cow.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: Run tailor's run, or she'll kill you all in now.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: End of the Tailors and the snail. Around the green gravel.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: Around the green gravel, the grass grows green, and all
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: the pretty maids are plane to be seen. Wash them
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: with milk, and clothe them with silk, and write their
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: names with a pen and ink. End of Around the
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: Green Gravel. Caesar's song, Bow Wow Wow, Whose dog art
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: thou little Tom Tinkers dog? Bow Wow Wow. End of
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: Caesar's song. Billy Billy, Billy Billy, come and play while
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: the sun shines bright as day. Yes, my Polly, so
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: I will for I love to please you. Still. Billy Billy,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: have you seen Sam and Betsy on the green, Yes,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: my Paul, I saw them pass skipping o'er the new
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: mown grass. Billy Billy, come along and I will sing
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: a pretty song. End of Billy Billy. As I was
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: going along, As I was going along along a singing
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: a comical song, song, song. The lane that I went
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: was so long, long long, and the song that I
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: sang was so long, long long. So I went singing along,
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: and of as I was going along, Rock a Bye Baby,
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: Rock a bye baby. Thy cradle is green. Father's a nobleman,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: mother's a queen, and Betty's a lady and wears a
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: gold ring. And Johnny's a drummer and drums for the king.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: And of rock a Bye baby. The man in the wilderness.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: The man in the wilderness asked me how many strawberries
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: grew in the sea. I answered him, as I thought, good,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: as many as red herrings grew in the wood. And
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: of the man in the wilderness. Hector Protector. Hector Protector
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: was dressed all in green. Hector Protector was sent to
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: the Queen. The queen did not like him no more
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: did the king, so was sent back again. End of
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: Hector Protector and of Part four of The Real Mother Goose.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: Section five of The Real Mother Goose. This is a
• 1:20:17
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• 1:20:22
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• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: This reading by Alison Hester of Athens, Georgia. The Real
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: Mother Goose by anonymous. Section five. Mary Mary quite contrary,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: Mary Mary, quite contrary? How does your garden grow silver
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all of a row?
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: End of Mary Mary quite contrary. Little Jack Horner, Little
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: Jack Horner sat in the corner eating of Christmas pie.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: and said, what a good boy am I? End of
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: Little Jack Horner. The bird Scarer, Away, birds away, take
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: a little, and leave a little, and do not come again,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: for if you do, I will shoot you through and
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: there will be an end of you. End of the
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: Bird Scarer. Bessie Bell and Mary Gray. Bessie Bell and
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: Mary Gray, they were two bonnie Lasses. They built their
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: house upon the lay and covered it with rushes. Bessie
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: kept the garden gate, and Mary kept the pantry. Bessie
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: always had to wait while Mary lived in Plenty. End
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: of Bessie Bell and Mary Gray Dance Thumpkin dance, dance
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: Thumpkin dance. Keep the thumb in motion dance, Ye, merry men,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: everyone all the fingers in motion. For Thumbkin, he can
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: dance the thumb alone, moving Thumpkin. He can dance alone.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: The thumb alone moving dance. Foreman dance the first finger
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: moving dance. Ye, merry men, everyone all moving, But Foreman
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: he can dance. The first finger moving Foreman, he can
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: dance alone. The first finger moving dance. Long men dance
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: the second finger moving dance. Ye, merryman, everyone all moving.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: For Longman, he can dance alone. The second finger moving. Longman,
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: he can dance alone. The second finger moving dance. Ringman
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: dance the third finger movement dance. Ye, merry men dance,
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: all moving, But Ringman cannot dance alone. The third finger moving, Ringman,
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: he cannot dance alone. The third finger moving dance. Little dance,
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: the fourth finger moving dance. You marry men dance all moving.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: But little man he can dance alone. The fourth finger moving.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: Little Man he can dance alone, the fourth finger moving.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: End of dance Thumpkin Dance. Needles and pins, Needles and pins,
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: Needles and pins. When a man marries, his trouble begins.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: End of Needles and pins. Pussy Cat and the Dumplings.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: Pussy Cat ate the dumplings, the dumplings. Pussy Cat ate
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: the dumplings. Mama stood by and cried, oh, fie, why
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: did you eat the dumplings? End of pussy Cat and
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: the Dumplings. The Little Bird. Once I saw a little
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: bird come, hop, hop, hop, So I cried, little bird,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: will you stop, stop, stop, And was going to the
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: window to say how do you do? But he shook
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: his little tail, and far away he flew. End of
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: the Little Bird. Mary's Canary. Mary had a pretty bird, feathers,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: bright and yellow, slender legs. Upon my word, he was
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: a pretty fellow. The sweetest note he always sung, which
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: much delighted Mary. She often, where the cage was hung,
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: sat hearing her canary. End of Mary's Canary. Birds of
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: a feather, birds of a feather flock together, And so
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: will pigs and swine, rats and mice will have their choice,
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: and so will I have mine. End of Birds of
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: a feather. The greedy man. The greedy man is he
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: who sits and bites bits out of plates, or else
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: takes up an almanac and gobbles all the dates. End
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: of the greedy Man. The dusty Miller. Margaret wrote a letter,
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: sealed it with her finger, threw it in the dam
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: for the dusty Miller. Dusty was his coat, Dusty was
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: the seller. Dusty was the kiss I'd from the dusty Miller.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: If I had my pockets full of golden cellar, I
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: would give it all to my dusty Miller. End of
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: the Dusty Miller. A star higher than a house, higher
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: than a tree. Oh, whatever can that be? End of
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: a star. The ten o'clock schollar, a diller, a dollar,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: a ten o'clock scholar? What makes you come so soon?
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: You used to come at ten o'clock, but now you've
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: come at noon? End of the ten o'clock schollar. An
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: icicle lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: its roots upward. End of an icicle. A ship's nail
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: over the water and under the water, and always with
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: its head down. End of a ship's nail. Cock a
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: doodle doo, Oh, my pretty cock. Oh, my handsome cock.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: I pray you do not crow before day, and your
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: comb shall be made of the very beaten gold, and
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: your wings of the silver so gray. End of COCKA
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: doodle doo. Willie Willie, Willie, Willie Wilkin kissed the maids
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: of Milkin fall a lah, and with his merry daffing
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: he set them all a laughing ha ha ha. End
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: of Willie Willie. The Boy in the Barn. A little
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: boy went into a barn and lay down on some hay.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: An owl came out and flew about, and the little
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: boy ran away. End of the Boy in the Barn.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: The Old Woman of leeds. There was an old woman
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: of leads who spent all her time in good deeds.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: She worked for the poor till her fingers were sore,
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: This pious old woman of leads. And of the old
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: Woman of leads. Sunshine hicckamore hackamore on the King's kitchen door.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: drive Hickamore Hackamore off the King's kitchen door. End of Sunshine.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: The quarrel, my little old man and I fell out.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what twas all about. I had money
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: and he had none. So that's the way the noise begun.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: End of the quarrel. Tongs, long legs, crooked thighs, little head,
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: no eyes. End of tongs. Jack Jingle, Little Jack Jingle.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: He used to live single, but when he got tired
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: of this kind of life, he left off being single
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: and lived with his wife. Now, what do you think
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: of little Jack Jingle? Before he was married, he used
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: to live single. End of Jack Jingle. The pumpkin eater
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: Peter Peter, pumpkin eater had a wife and couldn't keep her.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: He put her in a pumpkin shell, and there he
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: kept her very well. End of the pumpkin eater. Shoeing shoe,
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: the colt shoe, the colt shoe. The wild mare. Here
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: a nail, there a nail, Yet she goes bare. End
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: of shoeing. That's all. There was an old woman set spinning,
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: and that's the first beginning. She had a calf, and
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: that's half. She took it by the tail and threw
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: it over the wall, and that's all. End of that's all.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: Betty Blue, Little Betty Blue lost her holiday shoe. What
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: shall little Betty do give her? Another to match the other.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: And then she'll walk upon too. End of Betty Blue Dance.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: Little Baby, dance, Little baby, dance up high, never mind, baby,
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: Mother is by crow and caper, caper and crow there,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: Little baby there, you go up to the ceiling, down
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: to the ground, backwards and forwards, round and round dance,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: little baby and mother will sing with the merry coral ding,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: ding ding. End of dance, Little Baby, My little maid, Hi, diddle,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: doubt my candle's out, My little maid is not at home.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: Sat on my hog and bridle my dog, and fetch
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: my little maid home. End of my little maid bedtime.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: The man in the moon looked out of the moon,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: looked out of the moon, and said, tis time for
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: all children on the earth to think about getting to bed.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: End of bedtime. For want of a nail, for want
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: of a nail, the shoe was lost for want of
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: the shoe. The horse was lost for want of the horse.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: The rider was lost for want of the rider. The
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: battle was lost for want of the battle. The kingdom
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: was lost, and all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: End of for want of a nail, the crooked sixpence
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: He found a crooked sixpence beside a crooked style. He
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: they all lived together in a little crooked house. End
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: of the crooked sixpence. Pease porridge, Pease porridge, Hot, Pease
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot nine days old.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: Some like it hot, some like it cold, Some like
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: it in the pot nine days old. End of Pease porridge.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: This is the way. This is the way the ladies ride.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: Try tray tray, tree, try tra tray tree. This is
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: the way the ladies ride. Try tray, tray, tray, tree, tree,
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: tree tree. This is the way the gentleman ride. Gallop
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: a trot, gallop a trot. This is the way the
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: gentleman ride, gallop a gallop a trot. This is the
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: way the farmers ride. Hobbledy hoy, hobbledy hoy. This is
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: the way the farmers ride hobbledy hobbledy hoy. End of
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: this is the way. Ring a ring a roses, ring
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: a ring a roses, A pocket full of poses, t
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: sha te shaw, We all fall down. End of ring
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: a ring a roses donkey, donkey, old and gray. Ope
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: your mouth and gently bray, lift your ears, and blow
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: your horn to wake this world, the sleepy morn end
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: of the donkey. If if all the world were apple pie,
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: and all the sea were ink, and all the trees
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: were bread and cheese, what should we have for drink
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: and of if ducks and drakes? A duck and a
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: drake and a halfpenny cake with a penny to pay
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: the old baker, a hop and a scotch is another notch. Slitherum, slatherum,
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: take her end of ducks and drakes. The bells you
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: owe me five shillings, Say the bells of Saint Helen's.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: When will you pay me? Say the bells of Old Bailey.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: When I grow rich, Say the bells of shor Ditch,
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: When will that be? Say the bells of step Me
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: I do not know, says the great bell of Beau.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: Two sticks and an apple ring, the bells of Whitechapel.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: Halfpence and farthings. Say the bells of Saint Martin's. Kettles
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: and pans, say the bells of Saint Anne's. Brick bats
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: and tiles. Say the bells of Saint Giles, old shoes
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: and slippers, say the bells of Saint Peter's. Pokers and tongs,
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: say the bells of Saint John's. End of the bells.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: The little girl and Queen, Little girl, little girl, where
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: have you been gathering roses to give to the queen?
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: Little girl? Little girl, what gave she you? She gave
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: me a diamond as big as my shoe. End of
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: little Girl and Queen the King of France. The King
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: of France went up the hill with twenty thousand men.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: The King of France came down the hill, and ne'er
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: went up again. End of the King of France. Peter Piper.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? If Peter Piper picked
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: a peck of pickled peppers? Where's the peck of pickled peppers?
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: Peter Piper picks? End of Peter Piper. The tarts. The
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts all on a
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: summer's day. The Knave of Hearts. He stole the tarts
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: and took them clean away. The King of Hearts called
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: for the tarts and beat the nave full sore, The
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: nave of hearts brought back the tarts and vowed he'd
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: steal no more. End of the tarts one to ten,
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: one two, three, four five, I caught a hair alive
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: six seven, eight nine ten I let her go again.
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  Speaker 1: End of one to ten. An equal, Read my riddle,
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: Pray what God never sees, what the king seldom sees,
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: what we see every day, and of an equal? What
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: are little boys made of? What are little boys made of?
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: Made of? What are little boys made of? Snaps and
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: snails and puppy dog's tails? And that's what little boys
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: are made of? What are little girls made of? Made of?
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: all that's nice? And that's what little girls are made of?
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: And of what are little boys made of? Little maid?
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: Little maid, pretty maid? Whither go it'st thou down in
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: the forest to milk my cow? Shall I go with thee? No?
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: Not now? When I send for thee, then come thou,
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: end of little maid. Come, let's to bed, to bed,
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: to bed, says sleepy head. Terry awhile says slow, Put
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: on the pan, says greedy nan. We'll sup before we
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: go and of come, let's to bed. The girl and
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: the birds. When I was a little girl, about seven
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: years old, I hadn't got a petticoat to cover me
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: from the cold. So I went into Darlington, that pretty
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: little town, and there I bought a petticoat, a cloak
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: and a gown. I went into the woods and built
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: me a kirk. And all the birds of the air
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: they helped me to work. The hawk with his long
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: claws pulled me down the stone. The dove with her
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: rough bill brought me them home. The peer it was
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: the clergyman. The peacock was the clerk. The bullfinch played
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: the organ. We made merry work. End of the Girl
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: and the birds. Bandy legs. As I was going to
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: sell my eggs, I met a man with bandy legs,
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: bandy legs and crooked toes. I tripped up his heels
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: and he fell on his nose. End of bandy legs.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: Little Tom Tucker, Little Tom Tucker sings for his supper?
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: What shall he eat? White bread and butter? How will
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: he cut it without air a knife? How will he
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: be married without air? A wife? End of Little Tom Tucker.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: A pig. As I went to Bonner, I met a
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: pig without a wig, upon my word and honor. End
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: of a pig Jenny Wren. As little Jenny Wren was
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: sitting by her shed, she waggled with her tail and
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: nodded with her head. She waggled with her tail and
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: nodded with her head, as little Jenny Wren was sitting
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: by the shed. End of Jenny Wren, Where are you going,
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: my pretty maid? Where are you going, my pretty maid?
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: I'm going a meal, looking, sir, she said, May I
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: go with you, my pretty maid? You're kindly welcome, sir.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: She said, what is your father, my pretty maid. My
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: father's a farmer, Sir. She said, what is your fortune,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: my pretty maid? My face is my fortune, sir. She said,
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: Then I can't marry you, my pretty maid. Nobody asked you, sir,
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: she said. End of where are you going, my pretty maid?
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: The old Woman of Gloucester. There was an old woman
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: of Gloucester whose parent to guineas it cost her, but
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: its tongue never ceasing, was vastly displeasing to the talkative
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: woman of Gloucester. End of the Old Woman of Gloucester.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: Multiplication is vexation. Multiplication is vexation. Division is as bad
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: the rule of three doth puzzle me, and practice drives
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: me mad. End of multiplication is vexation. Little King Boggin,
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: Little Kingboggin, he built a fine hall, pie crust and
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: pastry crust that was the wall. The windows were made
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: of black puddings and white and slated with pancakes. You
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: ne'er saw the like. End of Little King Boggin. Bell horses,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: bell horses, bell horses, What time of day? One o'clock,
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: two o'clock three and away? End of bellhorses. Whistle whistle, daughter, whistle, whistle,
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: daughter dear. I cannot whistle, Mammy. I cannot whistle clear whistle,
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: daughter whistle whistle For a pound, I cannot whistle Mammy.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: I cannot make a sound. End of whistle. End of
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: Part five of The Real Mother Goose. Part six of
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: The Real Mother Goose. This is a LibriVox recording. All
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. This reading
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: by Alison Hester of Athens, Georgia. The Real Mother Goose
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: by anonymous Section six. Taffy. Taffy was a Welshman. Taffy
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: was a thief. Taffy came to my house and stole
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: a piece of beef. I went to Taffy's house. Taffy
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: was not home. Taffy came to my house and stole
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: a marrow bone. I went to Taffy's house. Taffy was
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: not in. Taffy came to my house and stole a
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: silver pen. I went to Taffy's house. Taffy was in bed.
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: I took up the marrow bone and flung it at
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: his head. End of Taffy a thorn. I went to
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: the wood and got it. I sat me down to
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: look for it, and brought it home because I couldn't
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: find it. End of a thorn. The robin. The north
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: wind doth blow, and we shall have snow. And what
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: will poor Robin do then, poor thing? He'll sit in
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: a barn and keep himself warm and hide his head
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: under his wing, poor thing. End of the robin. Young
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: Roger and Dolly. Young Roger came tapping at Dolly's window, thumpity,
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: thumpity thump. He asked for admitutes. She answered him, no, frumpety,
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: frumpety frump No Roger, no as you came, you may go. Stumpity,
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: stumpity stump. End of Young Roger and Dolly. The Old
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: Woman of Harrow. There was an old woman of Harrow
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: who visited in a will bear row, and servant before
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: knocked loud at each door to announce the old woman
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: of Harow. End of the Old Woman of Harrow. The
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: Piper and his Cow. There was a piper had a cow,
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: and he had naught to give her. He pulled out
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: his pipes and played her a tune, and bade the
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: cow consider. The cow considered very well, and gave the
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: piper a penny, and bade him play the other tune.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: Corn rigs are bonnie. End of Piper and his Cow.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: The Man of Derby, A little old man of Derby.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: How do you think he served me? He took away
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: my bread and cheese, And that is how he served me.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: End of the Man of Derby. The coachman up at Piccadilly. Oh,
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: the coachman takes his stand, and when he meets a
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: pretty girl, he takes her by the hand. Whip away forever, oh,
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: drive away, so clever, oh, all the way to Bristol. Oh.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: He drives her four in hand and of the coachman.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: There was an old woman. There was an old woman
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: who lived in a shoe. She had so many children
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: she didn't know what to do. She gave them some
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: broth without any bread. She whipped them all soundly and
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: put them to bed. And of there was an old woman.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: The little mouse. I have seen you, little mouse, running
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: all about the house through the hole, your little eye
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: in the wainscott, peeping sly, hoping soon some crumbs to steal,
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: to make quite a hearty meal. Look before you venture out,
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: see if Pussy is about. If she's gone, you'll quickly
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: run to the larder for some fun. Round about the dishes, creep,
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: taking into each a peep to choose the daintiest that's there,
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: spoiling things you do not care. End of the Little Mouse.
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: The Old Woman of Surrey. There was an old woman
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: in Surrey who was more noon to night in a hurry,
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: called her husband a fool, drove the children to school,
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: the worrying old woman of Surrey. End of the Old
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: Woman of Surrey. Ding Dong, bell, ding dong bell. Pussy's
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: in the well? Who put her in? Little Tommy Lynn
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: who pulled her out? Little Johnny stout. What a naughty
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: boy was that to try to drown poor pussy cat,
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: who never did him any harm but kill the mice
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: in his father's barn. End of ding Dong Bell. When
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: when I was a bachelor, I lived by myself, and
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: all the bread and cheese I got I laid up
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: on the shelf. The rats and the mice they made
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: such a strife. I was forced to go to London
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: to buy me a wife. The streets were so bad,
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: and the lanes were so narrow, I was forced to
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: bring my wife home in a wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow broke,
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: and my wife had a fall down. Came wilbarrow, little
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: wife and all. End of When Boy and Girl There
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: was a little boy and a little girl lived in
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: an alley. Says the little boy to the little girl.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: Shall I, Oh? Shall I? Says the little girl to
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: the little boy. What shall we do? Says the little
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: boy to the little girl, I will kiss you. End
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: of Boy and Girl. London Bridge. London Bridge is broken down.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: Dance over my lady Lee. London Bridge is broken down
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: with a gay lady. How shall we build it up again?
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: Dance over my lady Lee? How shall we build it
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: up again with a gay lady. Build it up with
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: silver and gold. Dance over my lady Lee. Build it
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: up with silver and gold with a gay lady. Silver
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: and gold will be stole away. Dance over my lady Lee.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: Silver and gold will be stole away with a gay lady.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: Build it up with iron and steel. Dance over my
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: lady Lee. Build it up with iron and steel with
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: a gay lady. Iron and steel will bend and bow.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: Dance over my lady Lee. Iron and steel will bend
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: and bow with a gay lady. Build it up with
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: wood and clay. Dance over my lady Lee. Build it
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: up with wood and clay with a gay lady. Wood
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: and clay will wash away. Dance over my lady Lee.
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: Wood and clay will wash away with a gay lady.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: Build it up with stone so strong, dance over my
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: lady Lee. Huzz up twill last for ages long with
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: a gay lady. End of London Bridge, Sing, Sing, Sing,
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: Sing What shall I sing? Cats run away with the
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: pudding string Do do what shall I do? The cat
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: has bitten it quite in two. End of Sing Sing
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: March Winds, March Winds and April Shy bring forth mayflowers.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: End of March winds hot cross buns, hot cross buns,
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: hot cross buns one a penny, two a penny hot
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: cross buns, hot cross buns, hot cross buns. If you
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: have no daughters, give them to your sons. End of
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: hot cross buns. The Lost shoe, Doodle Doodle doo. The
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: princes lost her shoe, her highness hot. The fiddler stopped,
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: not knowing what to do. End of the Lost shoe.
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: Hot Codlins. There was a little woman, as I've been told,
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: who was not very young nor very old. Now this
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: little woman her living got by selling codlins, hot hot hot.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: End of hot codlins. The balloon. What is the news
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: of the day, good neighbor, I pray? They say, the
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: balloon is gone up to the moon. End of the
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: balloon a cherry. As I went through the garden gap,
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: who should I meet but Dick Redcap, a stick in
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: his hand, a stone in his throat. If you tell
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: me this riddle, I'll give you a groat. End of
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: a cherry. The man of Tobago. There was an old
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: man of Tobago who lived on rice, gruel and sago
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: till much to his bliss his position said this to
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: a leg. Sir of Mutton, you may go. End of
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: the Man of Tobago. Swan swan, swan over the sea,
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: swim swan, swim swan, swan back again well swamp swan.
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: End of swan. Three straws. Three straws on a staff
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: would make a baby cry and laugh. End of three straws.
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: A sunshiny shower. A sunshiny shower won't last half an hour.
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: End of a sunshiny shower. Christmas, Christmas is coming. The
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: geese are getting fat. Please to put a penny in
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: an old man's hat. If you haven't got a penny,
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: A half penny will do. If you haven't got a
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: half penny, God bless you. End of Christmas. The farmer
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: and the raven. A farmer went trotting upon his gray mayre,
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: bumpity bumpity bump, with his daughter behind him, so rosy
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: and fair, lumpety lumpety lump. A raven cried croak, and
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: they all tumble down. Bumpity bumpity bump. The mirror broke
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: her knees, and the farmer his crown. Lumpety lumpety lump.
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: The mischievo this raven flew laughing away bumpity bumpity bump,
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: and vowed he would serve them the same the next day.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: Lumpety lumpety lump end of the farmer and the raven.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: The death and burial of poor cock Robin? Who killed
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: cock Robin? I said the sparrow with my bow and arrow,
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: I killed cock Robin. Who saw him die? I said
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: the fly? With my little eye, I saw him die?
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: Who caught his blood? I said the fish With my
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: little dish, I caught his blood. Who'll make his shroud?
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: I said the beetle. With my thread and needle, I'll
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: make his shroud. Who'll carry the torch? I said the linnet.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: I'll come in a minute. I'll carry the torch. Who'll
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: be the clerk, I said the lark, If it's not
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: in the dark, I'll be the clerk. Who'll dig his grave?
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: I said the owl. With my spade and trowel, I'll
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: dig his grave. Who'll be the parson? I said the rook.
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: With my little book, I'll be the parson. Who'll be
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: the chief mourner? I said the dove. I'll mourn for
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: my love. I'll be chief mourner, who'll sing a psalm?
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: I said the thrush. As I sit in a bush,
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: I'll sing a psalm. Who'll carry the coffin? I said
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: the kite. If it's not in the night, I'll carry
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: the coffin. Who'll toll the bell? I said the bull,
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: Because I can pull, I'll toll the bell. All the
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: birds of the air fell sighing and sobbing when they
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: heard the bell toll for poor cock Robin. End of
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: the Death and Burial of poor cock Robin. Willie Boy,
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: Willie Boy, Willie Boy, where are you going? I will
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: go with you, if that I may. I'm going to
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: the meadow to see them a mowing. I'm going to
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: help them to make the hay. End of Willie Boy.
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: Polly and Suki. Polly put the kettle on. Polly put
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: the kettle on. Polly put the kettle on, and let's
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: drink tea. Suki take it off again. Suki take it
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: off again. Suki take it off again. They're all gone away.
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: End of Polly and Suki. The mouse and the clock
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: Hickory Dickery dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: clock struck one and down he run Hickory Dickery doc
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: End of the mouse and the clock. Bobby Shaftoey, Bobby
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: shaft Tooey's gone to see with silver buckles on his knee.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: He'll come back and marry me. Pretty Bobby's shaft toey.
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: Bobby Shaftoey's fat and fair, combing down his yellow hair.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: He's my love forevermore, Pretty Bobby shaft Toey. End of
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: Bobby's Shaftoey. The bunch of blue ribbons. Oh dear, what
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: can the matter be? Oh dear, what can the matter be?
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: Oh dear, what can the matter be? Johnny so long
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: at the faire. He promised he'd buy me a bunch
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: of blue ribbons. He promised he'd buy me a bunch
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: of blue ribbons. He promised he'd buy me a bunch
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: of blue ribbons to tie up my bonnie brown hair.
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: And of the bunch of blue ribbons. Pussy Cat by
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: the fire. Pussy Cat sits by the fire? How can
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: she be fair? And walks? The little dog says, Pussy,
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: are you there? How do you do mistress, Pussy? Mistress, pussy,
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: how do you do? I think you kindly, little dog?
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: I fear as well as you. End of pussy Cat
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: by the fire. When the snow is on the ground.
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: The little Robin greaves when the snow is on the ground,
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: for the trees have no leaves, and no berries can
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: be found. The air is cold, the worms are hid.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: For Robin hear what can be done. Let's strow around
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: some crumbs of bread, and then he'll live till snow
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: is gone. End of when the snow is on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: The Woman of Exeter. There dwelt an old woman at Exeter.
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  Speaker 1: When visitors came, it sore vexter, so for fear they
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  Speaker 1: should eat, she locked up all her meat, The stingy
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  Speaker 1: old woman of Exeter. End of The Woman of Exeter Sneezing.
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  Speaker 1: If you sneeze on Monday, you sneeze for danger. Sneeze
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday, kiss the stranger. Sneeze on Wednesday, sneeze for
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  Speaker 1: a letter. Sneeze on Thursday, something better. Sneeze on a Friday,
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  Speaker 1: sneeze for sorrow. Sneeze on a Saturday, Joy Tomorrow. End
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  Speaker 1: of Sneezing, end of Part six and end of The
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  Speaker 1: Real Mother Goose. This has been a LibriVox recording by
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  Speaker 1: Alison Hester in March two thousand and eight.