PAGE 61. Thirty white horses on a red hill. The teeth and gums. PAGE 64. As round as an apple. A well. PAGE 71.—I love sixpence. From Ritson's "Gammer Gurton's Garland," p. 40, where it is called "The Jolly Jester." A longer and otherwise different version is given by Halliwell. PAGE 74. The line "London Bridge is broken down" is to be found in the "Heimskringla," a history of the Norwegian Kings from legendary times down to 1177. When King Olaf went to fight England early in the eleventh century he succeeded in breaking down London Bridge in a battle with King Ethelred, and the event was thus celebrated in song and in the Northern sagas, out of which incident doubtless our famous nursery rhyme has grown. PAGE 78. "London Bridge is broken down, Gold is won and bright renown, Shields resounding, War horns sounding, Hildur shouting in the din. Arrows singing, Mail coats ringing, Odin makes our Olaf win." The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee is the jingling ditty, made up by the "fantastical Spaniard,” Armado, and Moth, his page, in Act III, sc. i, 1. 86, of "Love's Labor's Lost." The text of the last verse is the reading of the Collier MS. PAGE 79. — Henny-penny. "chicken-licken." This also is found in another form as PAGE 83. The old woman and her pig. There are many examples of this class of accumulative stories, as they are called, which exist in all languages; the English, however, is particularly rich in them The house that Jack Built," "Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse," "John Ball shot them all," "The Key of the King's Garden," are among the more familiar. PAGE 91. — This version of the Golden Rule is from a reprint of "The New England Primer," the popular schoolbook of the children of New England during the eighteenth century. PAGE 91. A great while ago is the last stanza of the song sung at the end of “Twelfth Night." A little boy went into a barn April showers As I was going to St. Ives As like as two peas As round as an apple A stitch in time A swarm of bees in May A was an apple-pie Bat, bat, come under my hat Boy and the wolf, the Boys and girls come out to play Bryan O'Lin Bye, baby Bunting Cat, the ape, and the nuts, the Constant dropping PAGE 104 Cushey cow bonny. 19 Diddle, diddle, dumpling 102 Ding dong 23 Dog and the shadow, the 68 East, west, home is best . 76 Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsey, and Bess 76 Forgive and forget 70 Four-and-twenty tailors 64 Fox and the grapes, the II Frog and the ox, the 90 Good night I Goose and the golden eggs, the 66 Handy-spandy, Jack-a-dandy 91 Hare and the tortoise, the 42 Hark! hark! the dogs do bark 79 . |