76

Billy Bumpkins 76

Blue Flames and Red Flames 77

Timothy Grady 77

Captain Tickle and his Nickel 77

Grandmother Grundy 78

Needles and Pins 78

A Toe Rime 78

Harry Hooker 78

Jelly Jake and Butter Bill 80

Cut Up a Caper 81

Eat, Eat, Eat 83

Hetty Hutton 83

A Big, Fat Potato 84

A Bundle of Hay 85

Peter, Popper 86

Old Father Annum 86

The Tippany Flower 86

Here Comes a Cabbage 88

Plenty 89

The Runaways 89

A Race, A Race to Moscow 91

The Salesman 91

A Prince from Pepperville 91

Boats 92

Pretty Things 92

Did You Ever? 92

Hootem, Tootem, Clear the Track 94

Doctor Drake 94

Babies 95

Twenty Thieves From Albion 95

As I Came Out of Grundy Greet 96

THE PETER PATTER BOOK

[Illustration: --B. F. Wright--
JINGLE, JINGLE, JACK, A COPPER DOWN A CRACK]

A COPPER DOWN A CRACK

Jingle, jingle, Jack,
A copper down a crack.
Twenty men and all their wives,
With sticks and picks and pocket knives,
Digging for their very lives
To get the copper back.

I'M MUCH TOO BIG FOR A FAIRY

I'm much too big for a fairy,
And much too small for a man,
But this is true:
Whatever I do,
I do it the best I can.

DID YOU EVER PLAY TAG WITH A TIGER?

Did you ever play tag with a tiger,
Or ever play boo with a bear;
Did you ever put rats in the rain-barrel
To give poor old Granny a scare?

It's fun to play tag with a tiger,
It's fun for the bear to say "boo,"
But if rats are found in the rain-barrel
Old Granny will p