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Title: The Little Mother Goose

Author: Anonymous

Illustrator: Jessie Willcox Smith

Release Date: February 2, 2007 [EBook #20511]

Language: English

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The Little Mother Goose

[Illustration]

[Illustration:

_Hush-a-by, baby, on the treetop
When the wind blows the cradle will rock_]

[Illustration:

The Little Mother Goose

With numerous illustrations in full

color and black and white

By

JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH

NEW YORK

DODD, MEAD & 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_

[Illustration]

_A List of the Rhymes_

A, B, C, tumble down D 165

A carrion crow sat on an oak 136

A cat came fiddling out of a barn 49

A diller, a dollar 173

A duck and a drake 9

Aena, deena, dina, duss 73

A frog he would a-wooing go 147

A glass of milk and a slice of bread 138

A good child, a good child 31

A hill full, a hole full 79

All of a row 6

A long-tailed pig, or a short-tailed pig 97

An old woman lived in Nottingham town 47

A red sky at night 30

A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose 93

As high as a castle 27

As I was going o'er London Bridge 116

As I was going to St. Ives