The Little Mother Goose
The Little Mother Goose
With numerous illustrations in full color and black and white
By Jessie Willcox Smith
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New York
Dodd, Mead, and Company
Copyright, 1912, 1913, 1914
By Good Housekeeping Magazine
Copyright, 1914
By Dodd, Mead, & Company
Copyright, 1918
By Dodd, Mead, & Company, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America
- Hush-a-bye
- Currahoo
- When the days begin to lengthen
- Cantaloupes!
- Pat-a-cake
- As I was going to St. Ives
- Bye, baby, bunting
- Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks
- Bow-wow-wow
- Pease-porridge hot
- Ring the bell!
- Rub-a-dub-dub
- Please to remember
- My maid Mary
- Poor Dog Bright
- All of a row
- The cock doth crow
- The dove says
- This little pig
- The King of France
- Little boy blue
- See saw, Margery Daw
- Here stands a post
- A duck and a drake
- I'll tell you a story
- Toss up my darling
- Trip and go
- Great A
- Sing, sing
- Jack Sprat
- Dusty miller
- Polly, Dolly, Kate
- When I was taken
- Polly put the kettle on
- Phoebe rode a nanny goat
- There was an old woman lived under a hill
- Ding, dong, bell
- John, come sell thy fiddle
- As I was going up Pippen Hill
- Over the water
- Little Bo-peep
- Higher than a house
- The two gray kits
- Elsie Marley
- Here sits Lord Mayor
- There was an old woman she lived under a hill
- The rose is red, the violet is blue
- Tom, Tom, the piper's son
- Some little mice sat in a barn to spin
- Cock crows in the morn
- Ding, dong, darrow
- To Market
- There was a little girl who wore a little hood
- Bryan O'Lin
- Dogs in the garden, catch 'em, Towser
- Lucy Locket lost her pocket
- See-saw, sacaradown, sacaradown
- On Saturday night
- Daffy-down-dilly has come up to town
- Baa, baa, black sheep,
- Pitty Patty Polt
- Eggs, butter, cheese, bread,
- As high as a castle
- Joseph Smith bought a rake
- Shoe the horse
- There was an Old Woman, and what do you think?
- My story's ended, spoon is bended
- Come when you're called
- Little Robin Red-breast
- There was an old crow
- Play, play every day
- See-saw-Jack in the hedge
- Little Nancy Etticote
- A red sky at night
- There was a little boy and a little girl
- Little drops of water
- Made in London
- A good child
- Pit, pat, well-a-day
- Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
- Little lad, little lad
- Hink minx!
- Little Cock Robin
- Little girl, little girl, where have you been?
- The cock's on the housetop blowing his horn
- Little maid, pretty maid, whither goest thou?
- The girl in the lane, that couldn't speak plain
- I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear
- Pickeleem, pickeleem, pummis-stone!
- Wash the dishes
- Shoe the colt
- Pussy sits beside the fire.
- One misty, moisty morning
- There was an old woman, her name it was Peg
- Whistle, daughter whistle
- Little Betty Blue
- Jerry Hall, he is so small
- Friday night's dream, on Saturday told
- Ring-a-ring-a roses
- Old father Grey Beard
- Jockey was a piper's son
- Love your own, kiss your own
- Little Poll Parrot
- Little Miss Donnet
- Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John
- There was an old woman in Surrey
- Little Tommy Grace had a pain in his face
- There was an old woman had three cows
- Ride a cock-horse to Shrewsbury cross
- Rosemary green, and lavender blue
- Handy Spandy, Jack a-dandy
- There was a little girl who had a little curl
- The greedy man is he who sits
- One, he loves; two, he loves
- Hush, baby, my doll, I pray you, don't cry
- An old woman lived in Nottingham town
- Bryan O'Lin and his wife, and wife's mother
- Little Miss Lily, you're dreadfully silly
- Lady-bug, lady-bug
- A swarm of bees in May
- Curly locks!
- A cat came fiddling out of a barn
- I won't be my father's Jack
- Little maid, little maid
- As the days grow longer
- Hickory, dickory, sackory down
- One, two, buckle my shoe
- Wear you a hat, or wear you a crown
- There were two blackbirds
- Bat, bat, come under my hat
- What God never see
- Burnie bee, burnie bee
- Lazy Tom
- A water there is, I must pass
- Draw a pail of water
- The old woman must stand at the tub, tub, tub
- Georgey Porgey, pudding and pie
- Intery, mintery, cutery, corn,
- Tit, tat, toe
- Wee Willie Winkie
- Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater
- Good horses, bad horses
- In fir tar is
- Buz, quoth the blue fly
- Wasn't it funny?
- Hector Protector
- Donkey, donkey
- When little Fred went to bed
- Who comes here?
- Rule of three
- Was ever heard such a noise and clamor!
- I saw a peacock with a fiery tail
- Here am I, little jumping Joan
- There was a rat, for want of stairs
- Oh dear, what can the matter be
- There was a man in our town
- Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess
- Three Blind Mice
- Rain, rain, go away
- At the siege of Belleisle
- Clap, clap handies
- Two little dogs
- "Come, let's to bed."
- Up at Piccadilly, oh!
- Up hill and down dale
- Dickery, dickery, dock
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!
- Mary had a little lamb
- I like little pussy
- The calf, the goose, the bee
- Sing a song of sixpence
- Three wise men of Gotham
- Make three-fourths of a cross
- My mother and your mother
- There was a crooked man
- "Where are you going, my pretty maid?"
- Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
- Aena, deena, dina, duss
- There was an old woman
- "What do they call you?"
- The cuckoo's a fine bird
- Come, my dear children
- Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green
- There was an old woman tossed up in a basket
- Solomon Grundy
- Hot cross buns
- Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall
- My little old man and I fell out
- Little Tommy Tittlemouse
- The winds they did blow
- There was a little green house
- Cry, baby, cry
- Willy boy, Willy boy
- A hill full—a hole full
- If ifs and ands were pots and pans
- Jack and Jill went up the hill
- There was a little one-eyed gunner
- I am a gold lock
- There was an old woman of Leeds
- Margery Mutton-pie and Johnny Bopeep
- What is the rhyme for porringer?
- See a pin and pick it up
- Thirty days hath September
- Jack be nimble
- I had a little pony
- I went to the wood and got it
- Darby and Joan
- There dwelt an old woman at Exeter
- Mary had a pretty bird
- Ladybird, ladybird
- Awake, arise, pull out your eyes
- There was an old woman of Harrow
- There was an old woman who lived in a shoe
- Pussy Cat Mole
- Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross
- I do not like thee, Dr. Fell
- Cross Patch, draw the latch
- Charley Warley had a cow
- Doctor Faustus
- Riddle-me riddle-me riddle-me-ree
- The old man in the wilderness
- Miss Jane had a bag, and a mouse was in it
- The Man in the Moon looked out of the moon
- A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose
- Butterfly, butterfly, whence do you come?
- Robert Barnes, fellow fine
- Tommy Trot, a man of laws
- Hickety, pickety, my black hen
- One for the money
- There's a neat little clock
- Jack Sprat could eat not fat
- A long-tailed pig, or a short-tailed pig
- When I was a bachelor, I lived by myself
- Little Tommy Tucker
- Tell-tale-tit!
- Little Jack Horner
- Heigh, diddle, diddle
- Robin and Richard were two pretty men
- See, saw, Margery Daw
- Great A, little a
- Three children sliding on the ice
- Ding, dong, bell
- Cock a doodle doo!
- How many miles is it to Babylon?
- Now go to sleep, my little son
- Dance to your daddy
- A sunshine shower
- Hickery, dickery, 6 and 7
- If all the seas were one sea
- Hark! hark! the dogs do bark
- For every evil under the sun
- As I was going up and down
- I bought a dozen new-laid eggs
- Swan, swam over the sea
- Bossy-cow, bossy-cow, where do you lie?
- Nose, nose, jolly red nose
- Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been?
- Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea
- "Will you walk into my parlor?" said the spider to the fly
- One, two, three, four
- One, two, three, four, five
- Of all the gay birds that e'er I did see
- St. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain
- There once were two cats of Kilkenny
- This pig went to the barn
- There was a little man
- As I was going o'er London Bridge
- Come to the window
- There was an old woman
- I had a little husband, no bigger than my thumb
- Goosey, goosey, gander, wither dost thou wander?
- Little Polly Flinders
- If all the world was apple-pie
- Twinkle, twinkle, little star
- The man in the moon
- Hub a dub, dub
- Bell-horses
- Tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee
- Tom, Tom, the piper's son
- If all the world were water
- Ten little Indians
- Jack Spratt's pig
- Hush-a-bye, baby
- This is the way the ladies ride
- Father, may I go to war?
- There was an owl lived in an oak
- Nancy Dawson has grown so fine
- Old Grimes is dead, that good old man
- Peter Piper picked a peck
- Smiling girls, rosy boys
- My pussy cat
- Brow brinky
- Merry are the bells, and merry would they ring
- Come hither, sweet robin
- God bless the master of this house
- Little Tom Twig bought a fine bow and arrow
- When Jacky's a very good boy
- I love you well, my little brother
- Here we go round the mulberry bush
- Christmas comes but once a year
- A sunshiny shower
- Fol de riddle
- Speak when you're spoken to
- Birds of a feather flock together
- Robin the Bobbin
- A glass of milk and a slice of bread
- I have a little sister
- Monday's bairn is fair of face
- This is the House that Jack built
- Hiram Gordon, where's your pa?
- Taffy was a Welchman, Taffy was a thief
- Blow, wind, blow! and go, mill, go!
- I went up one pair of stairs
- The Queen of Hearts
- A frog he would a-wooing go
- Ladies and gentlemen, come to supper
- The North Wind doth blow
- There was an old woman, as I've heard tell
- I had four brothers over the sea
- Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for danger
- It costs little Gossip her income for shoes
- Here's Sulky Sue
- Pease porridge hot
- Three little kittens
- Old Mother Hubbard
- Peter White
- A, B, C, tumble down D
- A was an Archer, and shot at a frog
- Needles and pins
- It's raining, it's pouring
- Doctor Foster went to Gloster
- Who killed Cock Robin?
- Upon my word and honor
- Little King Boggen
- To market, to market, a gallop, a trot
- A diller, a dollar
- Yankee Doodle went to town
- The lion and the unicorn
- Old King Cole was a merry old soul
- Rowley Powley
- F I N I S