How many strawberries grow in the sea?
The Only True Mother Goose Melodies. Munroe & Francis. 1833.
The man in the wilderness,
Asked me,
How many strawberries
Grew in the sea?
I answered him as I thought good,
As many red herrings
As grew in the wood.
The following occurs in a MS. of the seventeenth century, in the Sloane Collection, the reference to which I have mislaid.
The Nursery Rhymes of England. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. 1886.
The Man in the Wilderness
Harry's Ladder to Learning David Bogue. 1850.
Big Book of Nursery Rhymes. Edited by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. 1920.
The man in the wilderness asked me,
How many strawberries grew in the sea?
I answered him, as I thought good,
As many as red herrings grew in the wood.
The Little Mother Goose. Jessie Willcox Smith. 1912.
The man in the wilderness asked me,How many strawberries grew in the sea?
I answered him,
As I thought good,
As many as red herrings
Grew in the wood.
Old Mother Goose: The Original Volland Edition. Eulalie Osgood Grover. 1915.
The man in the wilderness
Asked me
How many strawberries
Grew in the sea.
I answered him
As I thought good,
As many red herrings
As grew in the wood.
The Real Mother Goose. Blanche Fisher Wright. 1916.
The man in the wilderness
Asked me
How many strawberries
Grew in the sea.
I answered him
As I thought good,
As many as red herrings
Grew in the wood.
The man in the wilderness
Asked me
How many strawberries
Grew in the sea.
I answered him as I thought good,
As many red herrings
As grew in the wood.
Tags - Paradoxes - Men - Strawberry - Animal - Fish - Herring - Sea - Wood - Forest -
Origin - Europe - British Isles -