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BY THE SAME AUTHOR:

HANS BRINKER;

OR,

THE SILVER SKATES.

A STORY OF LIFE IN HOLLAND.

A New Edition, with Illustrations.

One vol, 12mo, cloth $1.50.

Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price by the Publishers,

SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG, AND COMPANY 745 Broadway, New York.

Girl pulling giant hollyhock down

Hollyhock, hollyhock, bend for me;
I want a cheese for my dolly's tea.

RHYMES AND JINGLES

BY
MARY MAPES DODGE
AUTHOR OF "HANS BRINKER," ETC.

little girl mending

NEW YORK
SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG, AND COMPANY
1875

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874,
By Scribner, Armstrong, and Company,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:
ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED BY
H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

TO
THE CHILDREN.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

	PAGE
Elfin Jack	1
The Mayor of Scuttleton	4
Fire in the Window	4
Cousin Jeremy	5
Thinking Aloud	6
"Bye, Baby, Night is Come"	8
Snow	9
Oh, where are all the Good Little Girls?	9
Christmas Bells	10
My Laddie	12
March	12
GARDEN SONGS.
Little Green Hummer	14
Gluck! Gluck!	15
A Lad of Nansook, a Balsam-pod took	16
I'd search the World over, for one Four-leaved Clover	16
Find me a Stem of the Tiger Lily	17
Good Mistress Sundial	18
Some One in the Garden	18
Wire-locks, Curly-pate, Tangle, and Floss	18
Old Bum of Bumbleby	19
Under the Willow, out of the Rain	19
Little Polly always Clever	20
Lift up your Face, Little Daisy!	21
I know where there's a Beautiful Shoe	22
Hobbledy Hops	23
Bright Little Buttercup	24
The Ants	25
Burs	26
Hollyhock, Hollyhock, bend for Me!	27
The Evening Primrose	28
Ho, Dandelion! My Lightsome Fellow!	28
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Song of Summer	29
Little Beginnings	30
Mooney and Blacky	31
The Moon came late to a Lonesome Bog	32
Johnny the Stout	32
A Farmer in Bungleton had a Colt	34
The Drinking-Pan	35
The Shrewd Lad of Cooloo	36
There was a Fine Youth of Pike's Peak	36
Stocking Song on Christmas Eve	37
In Trust	38
A Song of St. Nicholas	39
Flowers	41
The Little Mother	43
Among the Animals	44
Old Doctor Paff	45
The Little Girl who wouldn't eat Crusts	46
Poor Little Toddlekins	47
Song of the Ducks	49
That's What We'd Do	50
Little Pipkin	52
An April Maiden	52
There's a Fragrance in the Blossom	53
Wake up, Birdie!	54
The Difference (Three Old Ladies)	55
Billy Boy	58
Shepherd John	60
My Week	62
Baby in Dreamland	64
Thanksgiving	66
Birdie's Birthday	68
The Star Family	69
As I was Going	70
Two Little Froggies	70
One and One	72
Birdies with Broken Wings	73
Willie's Lodger	74
Four Little Piggies bound for a Frolic	76
Spinning your Top	76
Good Morning!	78
Lady Bird and Daddy Longlegs	79
Wouldn't and Would	80
Nell and Her Bird	82
There was an Old Weather-vane	84
Dumpy Dicky	84
Have You heard the News, Good Neighbor?	85
The New Slate	87
Little Pot soon hot	89
Nell's Notions	90
Never a Night so Dark and Drear	91
Snow, Snow, Everywhere	92
Some One we cannot hear	93
A Stranger in the Pew	93
The Queen o' May	96
Pussy's Class	98
Twistan, Turnem, let me See	100
Wandering Joe	100
Whether Fair, Whether Foul	101
The Rats	102
In the Wood	106
Comb Music	108
In the Basket	110
Coming	110
The Dainty Miss Rose	112
Poor Little Mousie	115
Waiting for Father	117
What Shall I Buy?	118
Rut-a-tut-tuts	119
Halloo, Old Scuttle, Where's your Coal?	120
Oh No!	120
The Sandman	122
Trouble in the Greenhouse	125
Ten Kinds	126
Have You Apples, Good Grocer?	127
The Old Woman of Wigg	128
The Brave Knight of Lorraine	128
The Old Doctor of Brille	129
Fairy Tales	130
Old Can an' Must	133
Motherless	133
Old Simon	137
The Little Mote	138
When I was Little	138
What makes Baby Brave and Bright?	139
The Alphabet	140
Early to Bed and Early to Rise	142
The Cook's Little Boy	142
Harry	144
Three Ways	145
Tom of Clapham	146
What they Say	146
One Step, Two Step	147
Melons	148
How many Things in My Pocket?	150
The Gallant Outriders	151
Busy Bee! Busy Bee!	153
Dobbin's Friend	155
The Way to Do it	156
Willy and His Pipe	158
I Had a Little Scotchman	160
Trottery, Trottery	161
Lazy Lou	161
Up in the Morning early	162
Pins in the Carpet, Tacks in the Floor	162
If Pussy were made of Leather	163
Be Careful	164
Farm Lessons	165
Out of the Ground	166
Poor Crow!	170
The Wooden Horse	171
Tinker, come bring your Solder	173
There was a Rare Boy	173
Taking Time to Grow	174
The Naughty Boy	176
Little Miss Limberkin	178
The Frog who wouldn't a Wooing Go	179
The Stubborn Boot	190
The Little Dutchman	192
A Birthday	193
The Pig and the Lark	196
The Well-meaning Frog	196
The Frost King	199
After the Winter	201
Little Whimpy	204
Night and Day	206
At the Window	206
Out of the Shell	208
Bees in the Manger	209
Baby Nell	209
Lemons for Molly	210
Jamie's Troubles	210
Jean and Kitty	211
Doggie's Tricks	212
A Song for Bertie	214
A Common Mistake	214
Little Minnie Stowe	215
Letting the Old Cat Die	216
What shall we take to Boston?	219
Washing Day	220
Trotty Malone	222
Don't Trust Chatter	222
Red and White	223
The Third of July	227
When I am Big	229
Wind for the Tree Top	229
Here are Plenty of Shells	229
Little Bell Dreer and the Dish-cover	230
Master Tremble's Adventure	232
Hark! My Children	235
The Kitten Picture	236
Some are Starving	237
The Terrible Ball	238
A Birthday Rhyme	243
The Girl Across the Way	245
Willie	247
If Cows wore Satin Slippers	250
Bumble Bramble	250
Nobody near Him, all in the Dark	250
Oh No, 'Tisn't So	251
The Sun and the Stars	251
Learning to Pray	254
Benny's Buttons	256
What was the Moon a-spying?	257
A Nursery Rhyme for Big Folks	257
Fire Flies	259
Fulfillment	261
Resolution	262
How the New Year Came	264
The Wind and the Moon	268
Children's Hymn	270

RHYMES AND JINGLES.

ELFIN JACK, THE GIANT-KILLER.

Do not think the story
Of the giant-killer's glory
Is known and cherished only by yourselves,
O, my dears;

Children sitting in tree

For his deeds so daring,
And his trick of scaring
All his foes, are quite familiar to the elves,
It appears.

In the starlight, tender—
In the moonlight's splendor
Do they gather and recount every deed,
It is said;
How he met a hornet,
Who was playing on a cornet,
Out of tune; and he slew him with a reed,—
Slew him dead!

How, growing ever bolder,
With his reed upon his shoulder,
And an acorn-shield upon his little arm
Well equipped—
He sought a mighty giant,
Who was known as "Worm, the pliant,"
And after giving battle, fierce and warm,
Left him whipped.

How he saw a spider
With her victim, dead, inside her,
Told her, in a voice of fury, to begone
From his sight;
How he killed her when she'd risen
To her cruel, fatal prison,
And nobly freed her captives, so forlorn,—
Gallant knight!

Ah, but the elves are proudest,
And ring his praises loudest,
When telling of a snail, grim and hoary,
In his mail.

With those fearful horns before him,
Jack gallantly upbore him,
And killed him with a thrust (to his glory)
In the tail!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

ELFIN JACK, THE GIANT-KILLER.