PUSSIE, PUSSIE BAUDRONS.

"Go, pack ye out at my chamber-door, Ye little cutty quean !"

Robin made his testament

Upon a coll of hay;

And by came a greedy gled,
And snapped him a' away.

PUSSIE, PUSSIE BAUDRONS.

"PUSSIE, pussie baudrons,

Where have you been?"

"I've been at London,
Seeing the Queen."

"Pussie, pussie baudrons,
What got you there?"
"I got a wee mousie,
Running up a stair."

"Pussie, pussie baudrons,
What did you do wi't?"
"I put it in my meal pock,

To eat it with my bread."

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THE THREE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM, WHO WENT TO SEA IN A BOWL.

THREE wise men of Gotham

Went to sea in a bowl,

And if the bowl had been stronger,

My song had been longer.

A RAINBOW.

PURPLE, yellow, red, and green,

The king cannot reach it nor the queen;
Nor can old Noll, whose power 's so great,
Tell me this riddle while I count eight.

FINGERS.

SHOEING THE COLT.

SHOE the colt,

Shoe the colt,

Shoe the wild mare;

Here a nail,

There a nail,

Yet she goes bare.

A BETTER MAN THAN YOU.

HERE stands a fist.

Who set it there?

A better man than you.
Touch him, if you dare.

FINGERS.

THIS is the man that brake the barn,
This is the man that stole the corn,
This is the man that ran awa',

This is the man that told a',

And poor Perlie Winkie paid for a',

Paid for a', paid for a'!

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GLASGOW, LINLITHGOW, AND
FALKIRK.

GLASGOW for bells,

Lithgow for wells,

Falkirk for beans and peas.

LITTLE BOY BLUE.

"LITTLE Boy Blue, come, blow me your horn, The cow's in the meadow, the sheep's in the corn; But where is the little boy tending the sheep?" "He's under the haycock fast asleep."

MORE WEATHER RHYMES.

MONY haws,

Mony snaws.

RAINIE, rainie, rattle-stone.

Dinna rain on me.

Rain on Johnnie Groat's house,

Far over the sea.

SUNNY, sunny shower,

Come on for half an hour.