Identifier: boydsmithmothergsmit (find matches)
Title: The Boyd Smith Mother Goose
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Smith, E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd), 1860-1943, ill Elmendorf, Lawrence
Subjects: Nursery rhymes
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ll dance without her shoe. Cock a doodle doo, My dame has found her shoe, And my master has found his fiddling stick, Sing doodle doodle doo. Cock a doodle doo, My dame will dance with you, While my master fiddles his fiddling stick, For dame and doodle doo. 5o MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES A FROG he would a-wooing go,Whether his mother would let him or no;With a roily polly, gammon, and spinachHeigh ho! said Anthony Roily. So off he set with his opera hat,And on the road he met with a rat.With a roily, etc. Pray, Mr. Rat, will you go with meKind Mrs. Mousey for to see ? With a roily, etc. When they came to the door of Mouseys HallThey gave a loud knock and they gave a loud call,With a roily, etc. Pray, Mrs. Mouse, are you within ? Oh yes, kind sirs, Im sitting to spin.With a roily, etc. Pray, Mrs. Mouse, will you give us some beer ?For Froggy and I are fond of good cheer.With a roily, etc. Pray, Mr. Frog, will you give us a song ?But let it be something thats not very long.With a roily, etc.
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He took up his hat and he wished them good night. MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES 5i Indeed, Mrs. Mouse, replied the frog, A cold has made me hoarse as a hog.With a roily, etc. Since you have caught cold, Mr. Frog, Mousey said, Ill sing you a song that I have just made.With a roily, etc. But while they were all a-merry makingThe cat and the kittens came tumbling in.With a roily, etc. The cat he seized the rat by the crown, The kittens they pulld the little mouse down. With a roily, etc. This put Mr. Frog in a terrible fright, He took up his hat and he wished them good night. With a roily, etc. But as Froggy was crossing over a brookA terrible duck came and gobbled him up.With a roily, etc. So there was an end of one, two, and three,The Rat, the Mouse, and the little Froggee.With a roily polly, gammon, and spinachHeigh ho! said Anthony Roily. 52 MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES

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