Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes (1917)
APPLEY DAPPLY, a little brown mouse,
Goes to the cupboard in somebody's house.
IN somebody's cupboard
There's everything nice,
Cake, cheese, jam, biscuits,
—All charming for mice!
APPLEY DAPPLY has little sharp eyes,
And Appley Dapply is so fond of pies!
NOW who is this knocking
at Cottontail's door?
Tap tappit! Tap tappit!
She's heard it before?
AND when she peeps out
there is nobody there,
But a present of carrots
put down on the stair.
HARK! I hear it again!
Tap, tap, tappit! Tap tappit!
Why—I really believe it's a little black rabbit!
OLD Mr. Pricklepin
has never a cushion to
stick his pins in,
His nose is black and his
beard is gray,
And he lives in an ash stump
over the way.
YOU know the old woman
who lived in a shoe?
And had so many children
She didn't know what to do?
I THINK if she lived in a little shoe-house— That little old woman was surely a mouse!
DIGGORY DIGGORY DELVET!
A little old man in black velvet;
He digs and he delves—
You can see for yourselves
The mounds dug by Diggory Delvet.
GRAVY and potatoes
In a good brown pot—
Put them in the oven,
and serve them very hot!
THERE once was an amiable guinea-pig,
Who brushed back his hair like a periwig—
HE wore a sweet tie,
As blue as the sky—
AND his whiskers and buttons
Were very big.
Frederick Warne & Co.
1917
