The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes | Page 5

to the owl:
"If it were not for your scowl
I'd like you as well
as most any wild fowl."
Said he to the wren:
"You're tiny, but then
I'll marry you quick, if
you'll only say when."
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[Illustration: I'LL TREAT THE CLOWN]
UP ON THE GARDEN GATE
Set me up on the garden gate
And put on my Sunday tie;
I want to
be there
With a round-eyed stare
When the circus band goes by.
Give me a bag of suckerettes
And give me a piece of gum,
Then I'll
get down
And treat the clown,
And give the monkey some.
'MOST ANY CHIP
'Most any chip
Will do for a ship,
If only the cargo be
Golden
sand
From the beautiful land
Of far-off Arcady.
For faith will
waft
The tiny craft
O'er Fancy's shining sea.
[Illustration]
A MOON SONG
Who hung his hat on the moon?
The owl in his bubble balloon.
One
bright summer night
He sailed out of sight,
And, hooting like
Lucifer, hung in delight
His three-cornered hat on the moon.
WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
"What makes you laugh, my little lass,
From morning until noon?"

"I saw a dappled donkey
Throwing kisses at the moon."
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"What makes you cry, my little lass,
And get your eyes so red?"
"I
saw a cruel gardener cut
A poor old cabbage head."
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"What makes you run, my little lass?
You're almost out of breath."


"A pumpkin made a face at me,
And scared me half to death."
TIMMY O'TOOLE
When Timmy O'Toole
Was going to school
He picked up a
package of gum.
He treated the preacher
And Sunday-school
teacher,
And gave a policeman some.
A MAN CAME FROM MALDEN
A man came from Malden to buy a blue goose.
And what became of
the gander?
He went and got tipsy on blackberry juice,
And that
was the end of the gander.
BARON BATTEROFF
The mighty baron, Batteroff,
Raised a whale in a watering trough.

When the whale grew large and fat
He ate the baron's brindle cat.

But pussy, once inside the whale,
Began to tickle with her tail.
This
the monster could not stand,
And spewed her out upon dry land.

That night, when all was fine as silk
And she had supped her bread
and milk,
She grinned and told old Batteroff
How she got the whale
to cough.
SIX LITTLE SALMON
I sing a funny song from away out west,
Of six little salmon with
their hats on;
How they all left home--but I forget the rest--
The six
little salmon with their hats on.
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TO GARRY ON THE TOOT-TOOT
Oh, I want to go to Garry
On the toot-toot, toot-toot,
You and I

together
On the toot-toot, toot-toot.
Go run and ask your mother

For some kind of cake or other,
And a bit of cotton wadding
For
your ball-suit.
Get your bobber and a bat,
And be back as quick as
scat,
For we've got to go to Garry
On the toot-toot.
DOUBBLEDOON
Bobbin rode a rocking-horse
'Way down to Doubbledoon,
He told
his little sister
He'd be back that afternoon.
But maybe after all she
didn't
Understand him right,
For he wasn't back again
Till the
middle of the night.
And what did little Bobbin see
'Way down at Doubbledoon?
He
saw a crazy Arab
Throwing bubbles at the moon,
A monkey
making faces
And a rabbit in a rage,
A parrot shouting "Murder!"

From the ceiling of his cage.
At last a yellow jumping-jack,
A camel, and a coon,
Chased poor
little Bobbin
All the way from Doubbledoon.
[Illustration: BOBBIN RODE A ROCKING-HORSE TO
DOUBBLEDOON]
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THE PARTY
Billy Bluebird had a party
In an elder tree,
But the little black-eyed
smarty
Didn't ask us to his party
Neither you nor me.
This is what they had for dinner,
For I peeked to see:
Apple seeds
and beetle finner,
And for drink the little sinner
Gave them tansy
tea.
But there came an awful clatter
From that elder tree,
When he
served them on a platter
Hopper-hash and brick-dust batter



Trimmed with celery!
All the folks were hale and hearty,
Happy as could be;
And that
little black-eyed smarty
Left out of his funny party
Only you and
me.
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I'VE GOT A YELLOW PUPPY
I've got a yellow puppy,
And I've got a speckled hen,
I've got a lot
of little
Spotted piggies in a pen.
I've got a gun that used to shoot,

Another one that squirts,
I've got some horehound candy
And a pair
of woolen shirts.
I've got a little rubber ball
They use for playing
golf,
And mamma thinks that's maybe why
I've got the
whooping-cough.
[Illustration: DOCTOR McSWATTLE FILLED UP A BOTTLE]
DOCTOR McSWATTLE
Doctor McSwattle
Filled up a bottle
With vinegar, varnish, and rum.

And offered a swallow
To all who would follow
The call of his
trumpet and drum.
It's good, I am told,
For a cough or a cold;
It's
good for a pain in your thumb.
COLUMBUS
Columbus sailed over the ocean blue
To find the United States.
In
three small ships he carried his crew,
And none of the three were
mates.
He found a land in the western seas,
And Indians galore,
With
jabbering parrots in the trees,
And sharks along the shore.

[Illustration]
He filled his pockets with sparkling stones
And took to the mighty
main,
With a couple of slaves, some nuts and cones
For the glorious
king of Spain.
Now this is the tale Columbus told,
And most of