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Title: The Baby's Opera

Author: Walter Crane

Release Date: May 10, 2008 [eBook #25418]

Language: English

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Transcriber's note:

All song titles are part of an illustration in the original,
and are marked as such, e.g., [Illustration: JACK AND JILL].
Lyrics contained in the music notation are marked as [Music:
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THE BABY'S OPERA

[Illustration]

A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses

by

WALTER CRANE

The Music by the Earliest Masters

[Illustration]

[Illustration: 1ST FIDDLE]

[Illustration: KING COLE]

THE BABY'S OPERA

A
Book of Old
Rhymes with
New Dresses

by

WALTER CRANE,

[Illustration]

The Music by
the Earliest
Masters

Engraved, & Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans.

London
Frederick Warne and Co.
and New York

[Illustration: BABY'S OPERA]

[Illustration]

_TO_

_THE HONOURABLE_

_MRS. GEORGE HOWARD_

[Illustration: CONTENTS]

_Page_

9. _Girls and Boys._

10, 11. _The Mulberry Bush._

12. _Oranges and Lemons._

13. _St. Paul's Steeple._

14, 15. _My Lady's Garden._

16. _Natural History._

17. _Lavender's Blue._

18, 19. _I saw Three Ships._

20. _Ding Dong Bell._

21. _Puss at Court._

22. _Three Blind Mice._

23. _