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Title: The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes

Author: Leroy F. Jackson

Illustrator: Blanche Fisher Wright

Release Date: July 7, 2007 [EBook #22014]

Language: English

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THE PETER PATTER BOOK
OF NURSERY RHYMES

[Illustration: THE KING HAD A PLATTER OF BRISKET AND BATTER]

[Illustration]

THE PETER PATTER BOOK
OF NURSERY RHYMES

_by_
LEROY F. JACKSON

_Pictures by_
BLANCHE FISHER WRIGHT

_To_
ANDREW, PUDGE, AND BOBBY
My first appreciative audience

Copyright (C) 1918 by Rand McNally & Company.
Renewal copyright 1946
by Rand McNally & Co.
All rights reserved.

[Illustration]

PETER PATTER _told them to me,
All the little rimes,
Whispered them among the bushes
Half a hundred times.

Peter lives upon a mountain
Pretty near the sun,
Knows the bears and birds and rabbits
Nearly every one;
Has a home among the alders,
Bed of cedar bark,
Walks alone beneath the pine trees
Even when it's dark.

Squirrels tell him everything
That happens in the trees,
Cricket in the gander-grass
Sings of all he sees;
Rimes from bats and butterflies,
Crabs and waterfowl;
But the best of all he gets
From his Uncle Owl.

Sometimes when its day-time,
But mostly in the night,
They sit beneath an oak tree
And hug each other tight,
And tell their rimes and riddles
Where the catty creatures prowl--
Funny little Peter Patter
And his Uncle Owl._

LIST OF THE RHYMES

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A Copper Down a Crack 9

I'm Much Too Big for a Fairy 9

Did You Ever Play Tag with a Tiger? 9

The Blue Song 10

Hippity Hop to Bed 10

Away to the R