t last he flew into a violent rage and flung his stick at the
bird

A spider one day attacked him

"I will go first and you come after, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky,
Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey"

So she escaped

The thorns closed in around her so that she was all scratched
and torn

Dick finds that the streets of London are not paved with gold

Dick Whittington hears Bow Bells

The old woman and her pig

Headpiece--How Jack went out to seek his Fortune

They both met together upon Nottingham bridge

"A vengeance on her!" said they. "We did not make our hedge
high enough"

He took out the cheeses and rolled them down the hill

And they left the eel to drown

The hare ran on along the country way

A courtier came riding by, and he did ask what they were
seeking

Headpiece--Lawkamercyme

A funny-looking old gentleman engaged her and took her home

White-faced simminy has got a spark of hot cockalorum on its
tail

[Illustration: Headpiece--St. George of Merrie England]

ST. GEORGE OF MERRIE ENGLAND

In the darksome depths of a thick forest lived Kalyb the fell
enchantress. Terrible were her deeds, and few there were who had the
hardihood to sound the brazen trumpet which hung over the iron gate that
barred the way to the Abode of Witchcraft. Terrible were the deeds of
Kalyb; but above all things she delighted in carrying off innocent
new-born babes, and putting them to death.

And this, doubtless, she meant to be the fate of the infant son of the
Earl of Coventry, who long long years ago was Lord High Steward of
England. Certain it is that the babe's father being absent, and his
mother dying at his birth, the wicked Kalyb, with spells and charms,
managed to steal the child from his careless nurses.

But the babe was marked from the first for doughty deeds; for on his
breast was pictured the living image of a dragon, on his right hand was
a blood-red cross, and on his left leg showed the golden garter.

And these signs so affected Kalyb, the fell enchantress, that she stayed
her hand; and the child growing daily in beauty and stature, he became
to her as the apple of her eye. Now, when twice seven years had passed
the boy began to thirst for honourable adventures, though the wicked
enchantress wished to keep him as her own.

But