THI

HIS is the way the ladies ride:
Tri, tre, tre, tree,

Tri, tre, tre, tree!

This is the way the ladies ride :

Tri, tre, tre, tre, tri-tre-tre-tree!

Vol. I

'HERE was an old woman toss'd

THERE

basket

up

Nineteen times as high as the moon; Where she was going I couldn't but ask it, For in her hand she carried a broom.

in a

"Old woman, old woman, old woman," quoth I, "O whither, O whither, O whither, so high?" "To brush the cobwebs off the sky!"

"Shall I go with thee?"

"Ay, by-and-by."

AFFY was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief;

TA

Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of
beef;

I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was not at home;
Taffy came to my house and stole a marrow-bone.
I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was not in;
Taffy came to my house and stole a silver pin;
I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was in bed,
I took up a poker and flung it at his head.

L

ITTLE BO-PEEP has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them; Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.

Little Bo-peep fell fast asleep,

And dreamt she heard them bleating; But when she awoke, she found it a joke, For they were still a-fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook,

Determin'd for to find them;

She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed, For they'd left all their tails behind 'em.

ઢ

LITTLE Polly Flinders

among the cinders,

Warming her pretty little toes.
Her mother came and caught her,
And whipped her little daughter
For spoiling her nice new clothes.

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig;

Home again, home again, dancing a jig.

Ride to the market to buy a fat hog;
Home again, home again, jiggety-jog.

JACK and Jill went up the hill

To fetch a pail of water;

Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.

K.