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pictures, some are
told entirely by them. The choice of these illustrations was made from
our best modern knowledge about little children. It is now recognized
that they like simple incidents, about themselves or the familiar things
around them, drawn in clear outline or with strong color. There are
certain artists, too, who seem to have retained their own childlikeness
better than others, and such were called upon to illustrate this
volume.

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 CONTENTS
 PAGE

 GENERAL INTRODUCTION vii
 INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME ONE xv

 #FATHER AND MOTHER PLAYS#

 BABY'S TEN LITTLE LIVE PLAYTHINGS 2
 By J. K. Barry
 MONDAY 4
 By Edith Goodyear
 FINGER PLAY 5
 By Edith Goodyear
 COUNTING THE FINGERS 6
 AN OLD NORSE FINGER PLAY 6
 BABY'S TOES 6
 BABY'S TOES 7
 By Edith A. Bentley
 THIS IS THE WAY MY FINGERS STAND 8
 THUMBKIN, POINTER 8
 NAMING THE FINGERS 8
 By Laura E. Richards
 ROBERT BARNS 8
 "SHALL I, OH! SHALL I?" 8
 JACK, BE NIMBLE 9
 TWO LITTLE HANDS 9
 PAT A CAKE 9
 CLAP YOUR HANDS 9
 THE BIRD'S NEST 10
 A Froebel Finger Play
 TWO LITTLE BLACKBIRDS 10
 MASTER SMITH 10
 LITTLE ROBIN REDBREAST 10
 GREETING 10
 A PLAY FOR THE ARMS 10
 THE LITTLE WINDOW 10
 A Froebel Finger Play
 SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE 11
 THE PIGEON HOUSE 11
 A Froebel Finger Play
 SAID THIS LITTLE FAIRY 12
 A BURROWING GAME 12
 PAT A CAKE 12
 A Froebel Finger Play
 A KNEE GAME 12
 A FOOT PLAY 12
 PUTTING THE FINGERS TO SLEEP 13
 TEN LITTLE SQUIRRELS 14
 MY LITTLE GARDEN 15
 THE FAMILY 16
 By Emilie Poulsson
 JOHNNY SHALL HAVE A NEW BONNET 18

 #RIDING SONGS FOR FATHER'S KNEE#

 TO MARKET RIDE THE GENTLEMEN 19
 HERE GOES MY LORD 19
 A FARMER WENT TROTTING 20
 UP TO THE CEILING 20
 THE MESSENGER 20
 CATCH HIM, CROW 20
 RIDE A COCK-HORSE 21
 THIS IS THE WAY 21
 RIDE AWAY, RIDE AWAY 21
 TO MARKET, TO MARKET 21
 TROT, TROT, THE BABY GOES 21
 By Mary F. Butts
 RIDE A COCK-HORSE 22
 HERE WE GO 22

 #MOTHER GOOSE SONGS AND STORIES#

 WHO ARE THESE? 24
 I SAW A SHIP A-SAILING 25
 GOOSEY, GOOSEY, GANDER 25
 THE WIND 25
 ONCE I SAW A LITTLE BIRD 25
 RING-A-RING-A-ROSES 25
 CROSS PATCH 26
 HAPPY LET US BE 26
 THE OLD WOMAN IN THE BASKET 26
 THE FOX AND THE OLD GRAY GOOSE 28
 JACK AND JILL 29
 WILLY BOY 29
 BONNY LASS 29
 OH, WHERE ARE YOU GOING? 30
 BOBBY SHAFTOE 30
 DING-DONG-BELL 30
 LONDON BRIDGE 31
 GREEN GRAVEL 32
 OLD MOTHER HUBBARD 32
 LITTLE BO-PEEP 34
 COME OUT TO PLAY 35
 LITTLE ROBIN REDBREAST 35
 LITTLE BOY BLUE 36
 MY MAID MARY 36
 HARK! HARK! 37
 BOW-WOW-WOW 37
 BLOW, WIND, BLOW 37
 BYE, BABY BUNTING 37
 THREE LITTLE KITTENS 38
 TOM WAS A PIPER'S SON 39
 DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY 40
 BILLY BOY 40
 THREE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM 41
 LITTLE TOMMY TUCKER 41
 PUSSY AND THE MICE 41
 WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY 41
 CHINESE MOTHER-GOOSE RHYMES 42
 By Prof. Isaac Taylor Headland

 #MOTHER GOOSE CONTINUED#
 By Anna Marion Smith

 PUSSY CAT, PUSSY CAT 45
 LITTLE BOY BLUE 45
 PAT-A-CAKE 46
 DICKORY DOCK 46
 HOW MANY MILES TO BABYLON? 47
 HARK! HARK! 47
 THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN 48
 HUMPTY DUMPTY 51
 THE QUEEN OF HEARTS 54
 ONE MISTY, MOISTY MORNING 54
 OLD KING COLE 55
 PUSSY SITS BESIDE THE FIRE 56
 THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW 56
 I HAD A LITTLE HUSBAND 57
 THERE WAS A MAN IN OUR TOWN 57
 SEE SAW, SACARADOWN 57
 SING A SONG O' SIXPENCE 58
 I LOVE LITTLE PUSSY 58
 THE HORNER BROTHERS 59
 By Elizabeth Raymond Woodward
 A LITTLE OLD MAN 60
 JINGLES 60
 SAILING 61
 By Lucy Fitch Perkins
 AN UP-TO-DATE PUSSY-CAT 62
 By Adeline Knapp
 MISERY IN COMPANY 63
 By Lucy Fitch Perkins
 COURT NEWS 64
 By Lucy Fitch Perkins
 A MESSAGE TO MOTHER GOOSE 65
 By Ellen Manly

 #SLEEPY-TIME SONGS AND STORIES#

 SWEET AND LOW 72
 By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
 THE SLEEPY-TIME STORY 73
 By Gertrude Smith
 THE GO SLEEP STORY 75
 By Eudora S. Bumstead
 THE GENTLE DARK 78
 By W. Grahame Robertson
 THE FERRY FOR SHADOWTOWN 78
 HUSH-A-BYE, BABY 78
 THE KITTEN AND THE FALLING LEAVES 78
 By William Wordsworth
 LATE 79
 By Josephine Preston Peabody
 A BLESSING FOR THE BLESSED 80
 By Laurence Alma-Tadema
 MY DOLLY 80
 THE CHILD AND THE WORLD 80
 EVENING SONG 80
 By C. Frances Alexander
 ROCK-A-BYE, BABY 80
 THE SANDMAN 81
 By Margaret Vandergrift
 THE FAIRY FOLK 81
 By Robert Bird
 QUEEN MAB 82
 By Thomas Hood
 LULLABY 82
 By Gertrude Thompson Miller
 KENTUCKY BABE 82
 MY POSSESSIONS 83
 THE WAKE-UP STORY 83
 By Eudora S. Bumstead

 #FIRST STORIES FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK#

 ABOUT SIX LITTLE CHICKENS 86
 By S. L. Elliott
 "TRADE-LAST" 88
 By Lucy Fitch Perkins
 PHILIP'S HORSE 89
 THE KITTEN THAT FORGOT HOW TO MEW 90
 By Stella George Stern
 WHAT COULD THE FARMER DO? 93
 By George William Ogden
 FLEDGLINGS 97
 By Lucy Fitch Perkins
 "TIME TO GET UP!" 98
 By Ellen Foster
 MAGGIE'S VERY OWN SECRET 100
 By Sara Josephine Albright
 THE GOOD LITTLE PIGGIE AND HIS FRIENDS 102
 By L. Waldo Lockling
 BABY'S PARADISE 105
 By Lucy Fitch Perkins
 DISOBEDIENCE 106
 FOR A LITTLE GIRL OF THREE 108
 By Uncle Ned
 A FUNNY FAMILY 109
 LITTLE BY LITTLE 110

 #LITTLE STORIES THAT GROW BIG#

 THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT 111
 GIANT THUNDER BONES 112
 By Stella Doughty
 THE HOUSE THAT JILL BUILT 116
 By Carolyn Wells
 THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG 119
 THE LAMBIKIN 121
 THE CAT AND THE MOUSE 123
 HENNY-PENNY 124
 THREE GOATS IN THE RYEFIELD 127
 Adapted by Cecilia Farwell
 TEENY TINY 129
 SONG OF THE PEAR TREE 130
 COCK-ALU AND HEN-ALIE 131
 By Mary Howitt
 THERE IS THE KEY OF THE KINGDOM 136

 #FUN FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK#

 NO DOGS ALLOWED AT LARGE 137
 By Culmer Barnes
 TOMMY AND HIS SISTER AND THEIR NEW PONY-CART 138
 By Dewitt Clinton Falls
 THE ADVENTURES OF THREE LITTLE KITTENS 139
 By Culmer Barnes
 THE LITTLE KITTENS' SURPRISE 140
 By Culmer Barnes
 TED'S FOOLISH WISH 141
 By Charles Fitch Lester
 NONSENSE RHYME 142
 TIMOTHY TRUNDLE 143
 By Frederick Moxon
 A DREAM OF GLORY 148
 By Charles Fitch Lester
 PICTURES 149
 By Culmer Barnes
 THE REUNION OF THE BRUIN FAMILY AT THE SEA SHORE 150
 By Culmer Barnes
 THE BABY MICE ARE INSTRUCTED BY THEIR FOND PAPA 151
 By Culmer Barnes
 ROLY POLY ON VACATION 152
 By Culmer Barnes
 MOTHER GOOSE'S LAST TROLLEY RIDE 153
 By Culmer Barnes
 IVAN AND THE WOLF 154
 By Culmer Barnes
 HOMEWARD BOUND 154
 By Culmer Barnes
 THEIR LITTLE JAR 156
 By Bell
 LITTLE ESKI AND THE POLAR BEAR 158
 By Culmer Barnes

 #FUNNY VERSES AND PICTURES#

 THE FROG'S FIASCO 160
 By D. K. Stevens
 THE MUSICAL TRUST 164
 By D. K. Stevens
 THE CAUTIOUS CAT 168
 By D. K. Stevens
 THREE LITTLE BEARS 171
 By M. C. McNeill
 THE SNOWMAN 172
 By W. W. Ellsworth

 #ANIMAL STORIES#

 TINY HARE AND THE WIND BALL 173
 By A. L. Sykes
 HOW TINY HARE MET CAT 176
 By A. L. Sykes
 THE WEE HARE AND THE RED FIRE 179
 By A. L. Sykes
 THE GOOD KING 182
 By Margaret and Clarence Weed
 EARLY AND LATE 184
 By W. S. Reed
 THE LITTLE PINK PIG AND THE BIG ROAD 185
 By Jasmine Stone Van Dresser
 JUGGERJOOK 188
 By L. Frank Baum
 WHAT YOU BURYING, A BONE 194
 THE LITTLE GRAY KITTEN 194
 By Mary Lawrence Turnbull
 PUSSY'S WHEELS 197
 By Annie W. McCullough
 THE SMALL GRAY MOUSE 198
 By Nathan Haskell Dole
 THE RABBIT, TH

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