A slippery gap
As I went up a slippery gap
I met my Uncle Davy,
With timber toes and an iron nose-
Upon my word he would frighten the crows!
A short sweet tale
Peter Pratt was so very very fat,
A fat fat boy was Peter,
He washed his face in a sugar basin,
To make his manners sweeter.
He thought it funny to swallow honey.
And treacle he loved to lick,
Hark! what a warning!â??One dreadful morning
He changed into a sugar stick.
A sharp lover
“I Dread you much,
my little miss,
You’re such a dainty thing.
I fear although quite sharp myself,
You’ve got me on the string.”
A seasonable song
Piping hot, smoking hot.
What I’ve got
You have not.
Hot gray pease, hot, hot, hot;
Hot gray pease, hot.
A sailor went to sea
A sailor went to sea, sea, sea.
To see what he could see, see, see.
But all that he could see, see, see.
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea.
A rising doctor
Dr Yeast-Cake, it’s hard for me to speak,
As I haven’t risen for more than a week.”
“Take this, Mr. Roll, and never you fear;
You’ll rise before morning, so be of good cheer.”
A rash stipulation
The daughter of the farrier
Could find no one to marry her,
Because she said she would not wed
A man who could not carry her.
The foolish girl was wrong enough,
And had to wait quite long enough;
For as she sat she grew so fat
That nobody was strong enough.
A race
Merrily the breezes blow!
(We’re in Wonderland, you know.)
Merrily the hoops are spinning!
(Hats, are they? well, it’s no matter;
All the better for the hatter.)
Can you tell me which is winning?
Red or blue? I wager red.
Ladies first! But Master Ned
Won’t be far behind Miss Alice.
When the pretty race is run,
They’ll put on their hoops what fun!
And go home to Wonder Place!
A pinch of salt
A little boy said to a bird,
“Is it quite true what I have heard–
A pinch of salt upon your tail,
And I shall catch you without fail?”
The little bird said to the boy
“Salt is the right thing to employ.
A pinch of salt will never fail.
But first of all, please–catch any tail!”
A needle and a thread
Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye,
And a long tail which she let fly;
And every time she went through a gap,
A bit of her tail she left in a trap.
A memory
Four ducks on a pond,
A grass-bank beyond,
A blue sky of spring,
White clouds on the wing;
What a little thing
To remember for years-
To remember with tears!
A melancholy song
Trip upon trenchers,
And dance upon dishes,
My mother sent me for some barm, some barm;
She bid me go lightly,
And come again quickly,
For fear the young men should do me some harm.
Yet didn’t you see, yet didn’t you see,
What naughty tricks they put upon me?
They broke my pitcher
And spilt the water,
And huffed my mother,
And chid her daughter,
And kissed my sister instead of me
A man and a maid
There was a little man,
Who wooed a little maid,
And he said, “Little maid, will you wed, wed, wed?
I have little more to say,
So will you, yea or nay,
For least said is soonest mended-ded, ded, ded.”
The little maid replied,
“Should I be your little bride,
Pray what must we have for to eat, eat, eat?
Will the flame that you’re so rich in
Light a fire in the kitchen?
Or the little god of love turn the spit, spit, spit?”
A little old man
A little old man and I fell out;
How shall we bring this matter about?
Bring it about as well as you can;
Get you gone, you little old man.
A little man
And now I’m going into “chowsers,”
Tomorrow I shall be a man,
And leave my pinafores and frockses,
And leave my dollie
–if–Iâ??can.
Tomorrow I must give my dollie,
Mother says, to baby Fan.
Oh! could I keep my doll,
I wonder,
If she wore “chowsers” liKe a man?
A lark
Lark-Bird, lark-bird, soaring high,
Are you never weary?
When you reach the empty sky
Are the clouds not dreary?
Donâ??t you sometimes long to be
A silent goldfish in the sea?
Goldfish, goldfish, diving deep,
Are you never sad, say?
When you feel the cold waves creep
Are you really glad, say ?
Donâ??t you sometimes long to sing
And be a lark-bird on the wing ?
A kiss when I wake in the morning
A kiss when I wake in the morning
A kiss when I go to bed,
A kiss when I burn my fingers,
A kiss when I bump my head.
A kiss when my bath begins
A kiss when my bath is over,
My mamma is as full of kisses
As nurse is full of pins.
A kiss when I pull her hair,
A kiss when I play with my rattle;
She covered me all over with kisses
The day that I fell down stair.
A kiss when I give her trouble,
A kiss when I give her joy;
Thereâ??s nothing like mammaâ??s kisses
To her own little baby boy.
A king met a king
There was a king met a king
In a narrow lane.
Says this king to that king;
“Where have you been?”
“Oh Iâ??ve been a-hunting
With my dog my doe,”
“Pray lend him to me,
That I may do so”
“Thereâ??s the dog take the dog,”
“Whatâ??s the dogâ??s name?”
“Iâ??ve told you already,”
“Pray tell me again.”
A jumper of ditches
A jumper of ditches,
A leaper of thorns,
A little grey man with
Two leather horns
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