Gateway to the Classics: A Child's Own Book of Verse, Book One by Ada M. Skinner and Frances Gillespy Wickes

A Child's Own Book of Verse, Book One

by Ada M. Skinner and Frances Gillespy Wickes

Table of Contents

Once I Saw a Little Bird

Bow-Wow-Wow

The North Wind Doth Blow

Some Little Mice

Bobby Shafto

The Rabbits

Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee

Little Cock-Sparrow

There Was a Little Robin

Who Has Seen the Wind?

Three Little Maidens

Bimble, Bamble, Bumble

A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go

The Light-Hearted Fairy

All Busy

Moon, So Round and Yellow

When the Sleepy Man Comes

The Ship

Will You Be My Little Wife

I Would Like You for a Comrade

Sir Robin

The Little Maiden and the Little Bird

The Bow That Bridges Heaven

Goldenrod

The Peddler's Caravan

Peterkin Pout and Gregory Grout

How To Get a Breakfast

How the Little Kite Learned To Fly

The Rainbow Fairies

The Quarrelsome Kittens

Dame Duck's First Lecture on Education

Mr. Nobody

An Old Rat's Tale

Who Stole the Bird's Nest

All Busy

The cock's on the house-top, 
Blowing his horn;
The bull's in the barn, 
A-threshing of corn;

The maids in the meadows 
Are making the hay, 
The ducks in the river 
Are swimming away.

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