In Bamborough Castle once lived a king who had a fair wife and two children, a son named Childe Wynd and a daughter named Margaret. Childe Wynd went forth to seek his fortune, and soon after he had gone the…
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Once upon a time there was a farmer and his wife who had one daughter, and she was courted by a gentleman. Every evening he used to come and see her, and stop to supper at the farmhouse, and the…
The cat and the mouse Play'd in the malt-house:
The cat bit the mouse’s tail off. “Pray, puss, give me my tail.” “No,” says the cat, “I’ll not give you your tail, till you go to the cow, and fetch…
There was once upon a time a good man who had two children: a girl by a first wife, and a boy by the second. The girl was as white as milk, and her lips were like cherries. Her hair…
Once upon a time, there was a mighty baron in the North Countrie who was a great magician that knew everything that would come to pass. So one day, when his little boy was four years old, he looked into…
An old woman was sweeping her house, and she found a little crooked sixpence. “What,” said she, “shall I do with this little sixpence? I will go to market, and buy a little pig.”
As she was coming home, she…
Once upon a time when pigs spoke rhyme And monkeys chewed tobacco, And hens took snuff to make them tough, And ducks went quack, quack, quack, O!
All the birds of the air came to the magpie and asked her…
High above the city, on a tall
column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded
all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two
bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on…
“She said that she would
dance with me if I brought her red roses,” cried the young
Student; “but in all my garden there is no red
rose.”
From her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale heard him,
and…
Every afternoon, as they were
coming from school, the children used to go and play in the
Giant’s garden.
It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass.
Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars,…
One morning the old Water-rat put
his head out of his hole. He had bright beady eyes and
stiff grey whiskers and his tail was like a long bit of black
india-rubber. The little ducks were swimming about in the…
The King’s son was going to
be married, so there were general rejoicings. He had waited
a whole year for his bride, and at last she had arrived.
She was a Russian Princess, and had driven all the way from…
One day Henny-penny was picking up corn in the cornyard when—whack!—something hit her upon the head. “Goodness gracious me!” said Henny-penny; “the sky’s a-going to fall; I must go and tell the king.”
So she went along and she went…
The Man In The Moon
THE man in the moon,
Came tumbling down,
And ask’d his way to Norwich,
He went by the south,
And burnt his mouth
With supping cold pease-porridge.
My Dear, Do You Know
MY dear, do…
To Make Your Candles Last For A’
TO make your candles last for a’,
You wives and maids give ear-o!
To put ’em out’s the only way,
Says honest John Boldero.
St. Swithin’S Day, If Thou Dost Rain
ST. SWITHIN’s…
One Misty Moisty Morning
ONE misty moisty morning,
When cloudy was the weather,
There I met an old man
Clothed all in leather;
Clothed all in leather,
With cap under his chin,—
How do you do, and how do you…
I Went To The Wood And Got It
I WENT to the wood and got it;
I sat me down and looked at it;
The more I looked at it the less I liked it;
And I brought it home…
Cushy Cow Bonny, Let Down Thy Milk
CUSHY cow bonny, let down thy milk,
And I will give thee a gown of silk;
A gown of silk and a silver tee,
If thou wilt let down thy milk to me.…