The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes | Page 7

in his tears.
He rides a charger ten feet high,
A dashing, dappled gray;
Has
ginger pop and lemon pie
For breakfast every day.
So get a royal canopy,
The finest ever seen,
And whiskers for his
majesty,
And tresses for the queen.
THE CANADA GOOSE
A Canada goose
On the South Palouse
Is singing her summer song.

Her words are wise,
And she greets the skies
With a voice like a
steamer gong:
"If you harbor your wealth
And keep your health,

You'll always be rich and strong."
[Illustration]
HIPPERTY, CLICKERTY, CLACKERTY, BANG
Hipperty, clickerty, clackerty, bang,
Get in a corner as fast as you can!


The sideboard is tipsy, the table is mad,
The chairs have lost all the
sense that they had.
So hipperty, clickerty, clackerty, bang,
Get in a
corner as fast as you can!
[Illustration]
SONNY
A sailor gave his sonny
Nearly half a pint of money
And sent him
out to buy a ton of coal;
But he met a poor old miser
Who told him
it were wiser
To bury all his money in a hole.
A sailor gave his sonny
Nearly half a pint of money
And told him
he should buy a suit of clothes;
But he saw a pretty maiden
With all
kinds of posies laden,
And he gave her all his money for a rose.
Then the sailor gave his sonny
Nearly half a pint of money
To buy
a little garden and a house;
But he found him the next day,
In a
shop on Yesler Way,
A-buying cheese and crackers for a mouse.
[Illustration: HE GAVE HER ALL HIS MONEY FOR A ROSE]
THE STOVE
A stove is a thing that gets awfully hot,
And fries up your meat, or
whatever you've got.
It's made out of iron and hinges and screws,

And filled up with shakers, and dampers, and flues.
It's not very long
and it's not very wide;
It's got black'ning on top and ashes inside.
[Illustration]
THE THUNDER BABY
Have you heard of the Thunder Baby
Way up in the big blue sky?

You've seen his cradle, maybe,
And maybe you've heard him cry.

Most of the time he's sleeping,
Rolled up in a big white cloud,
But
when he's awake and hungry
He bellows awfully loud.
And when he's crying, sometimes
You can hear his teardrops fall

With a patter, patter, patter,
Against the garden wall.
But when he's madder'n mischief,
He rolls, and growls, and spits,

And kicks the clouds all forty ways,
And gives the weather fits.
Then tears come down in bucketfuls,
And children dance for joy,

Till the sun comes out and soundly spanks
Her Thunder Baby Boy.
[Illustration]
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HINKY, PINKY, PEARLY EARL
Hinky, pinky, pearly earl,
Twenty nobles and a churl;
Some are fat
and some are lean,
One in red and one in green--
Prior, priest, and
pearly earl,
Twenty nobles and a churl.
[Illustration]
TIPSY TOM
Tipsy Tom, the naughty fellow,
Dressed his wife in pink and yellow,

Set her in an apple tree,
And said: "Now catch a bumblebee."
JOLLY JINKS
Jolly Jinks, the sailor man,
Went to sea in an oyster can.
But he
found the water wet,
Fishes got into his net,
So he pulled his boat to
shore
And vowed he'd sail the seas no more.
TRANSFORMATION

Auntie Ellen found her poodle--
Mercy! Goodness sake!--
Playing
with the mully-wumps
Down along the lake.
And when she called him tenderly
He didn't want to come;
It took
her over half an hour
To get the rascal home.
She washed him well with shaving-soap,
Pumice stone and lye,
She
showered him and she scoured him
And she hung him up to dry.
And now he sits there quite serene,
The sweetest poodle ever seen.
[Illustration: TRANSFORMATION]
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THE THIEF CHASE
Bricks and bones!
Sticks and stones!
I chased a thief through
twenty zones.
I found his hat
On Ararat,
And hurried on as quick as scat.
In a day or two
I found his shoe
Where he had sailed for Timbuktu.
I met the goat
That ate his coat
Upon the road to Terre Haute.
At last all worn
And quite forlorn
I chased him up the Matterhorn.
SOMEBODY
Somebody give me a peanut,
Somebody give me a pear;
I want to
go down to the circus
And feed all the animals there.
[Illustration]
CONSOLATION

A dime and a dollar
Took me by the collar
And whispered this
word in my ear:
"We must leave you to-morrow,
But prithee don't sorrow,
We'll
come back to see you next year."
THE ROBIN AND THE SQUIRREL
Said the Robin to the Squirrel,
"How d' you do?"
Said the Squirrel
to the Robin,
"How are you?"
"Oh, I've got some cherry pies,
And
a half a dozen flies,
And a kettle full of beetles on to stew."
[Illustration]
Said the Squirrel to the Robin,
"How d' you do?"
Said the Robin to
the Squirrel,
"How are you?"
"I've a nest that's nice and neat,
And
a wife that can't be beat,
And I'm every bit as happy now as you."
THE KING HAD A PLATTER
The King had a platter
Of brisket and batter,
The Prince had a
Bellington bun,
The Queen had a rose
To put to her nose
As soon
as the dinner was done.
[Illustration]
RAIN
The lightning split the sky in two
And set the clouds to leaking
Just
as dear old Pastor Brown
Began his Sunday speaking.
He