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Rhymes and jingles by Mary Mapes Dodge
Dodge, Mary Mapes (1830-1905)
[dedication]
[section]
Garden Songs
[section]
A Song of St. Nicholas
The Little Mother
A Riddle
Midsummer Frolics
A Suggestion for A Happy New Year
JEAN AND KITTY
[Lemons for Molly]
Out of the Shell
[I know where there's a beautiful shoe]
Willie
TROTTY MALONE
THE TERRIBLE BALL
NIGHT AND DAY
Wouldn't and Would
My Week
Baby in Dreamland
One & one
THE WELL-MEANING FROG
The Little Dutchman
HOW MANY THINGS IN MY POCKET?
Little Pot Soon Hot
[“Have you heard the news, good neighbor?”]
Nell and her Bird
[Some one we cannot hear]
MY LADDIE
THE STUBBORN BOOT
SONG OF SUMMER
The Queen o' May
IN-THE-WOOD
In the Basket
Wandering Joe
Children's Hymn
THE SUN AND THE STARS
TAKING TIME TO GROW
The Rats
DOGGIE'S TRICKS
THE THIRD OF JULY
Comino
The Dainty Miss Rose
[If cows wore satin slippers]
[Bumble, bramble, which came first, sir]
[Bees in the manger]
Little Whimpy
LITTLE BEGINNINGS
Rut-a-Tut-Tuts
THE SAND MAN
[There was a brave knight of Lorraine]
In Trust
THE NAUGHTY BOY
[Holloa!]
The Little Mote
The Alphabet
Three Ways
[A farmer in Bungleton had a colt]
[There was a shrewd lad of Cooloo]
Among the Animals
[Poor little Toddlekins]
What shall I buy
WAITING FOR FATHER
Dobbin's Friend
[Spinning your top]
[One step—two step]
Up in the Morning
Be Careful
Two Little Froggies
[Pins in the carpet, tacks in the floor]
[Trottery, trottery, out of breath!]
PUSSY'S CLASS
[Dumphy Dicky said, “I can't;”]
[Some are starving, some are filling]
[There's a fragrance in the blossom]
Johnny the Stout
Pussy & Doggie
[Old Doctor Paff, he used to laugh]
WILLIE'S LODGER
Billy Boy
Little Miss Limberkin
The Way to do it
HALLOO, OLD SCUTTLE!
[When I was little]
[I'd like to be a splendid man]
NOT ONLY IN THE CHRISTMAS-TIDE
Christmas
Side by Side
[Birdies with broken wings]
The Three Old Ladies
THE MAYOR OF SCUTTLETON
Nell's Notion
GOOD-NIGHT!
[What makes baby brave and bright?]
TEN KINDS
SHEPHERD JOHN
Lazy Lou
COMB AND BRUSH
FLOWERS
Thinking Aloud
Willy and his Pipe
The Knowing Raccoon
The Star Family
Good Morning
Wake up Birdie
Oh No
THE DIFFERENCE
CONFUSION
The Frog who wouldn't A-Wooing go
The Pig and the Lark
[I gave my puss a mac-a-roon]
A COMMON MISTAKE
LOOK UP
Poor Little Mousie
Cousin Jeremy
What shall we Take
[Oh, where are all the good little girls]
EXTRAVAGANCE
Harry
[There was an old weather-vane high on a shed]
[Twistan Turnem, let me see]
What They Say
JINGLES
[I had a little Scotchman]
THE ROCKING-HORSE
UP IN A BALLOON
At the Window
THE COOK'S LITTLE BOY
BENNY'S BUTTONS
The Frost King
[“Early to bed and early to rise:”]
[Tom of Clapham used to say]
THE WOODEN HORSE
COMB MUSIC
[When the sun is sinking low in the skies]
FOUR LITTLE BIRDS
[Baby Nell had ten little toes]
Little Minnie Stowe
How the New Year came
CHRISTMAS BELLS
Master Tremble
[Nobody near him, all in the dark]
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Rhymes and jingles by Mary Mapes Dodge
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A COMMON MISTAKE
The
wisest thing
For any man,
Is to get from others
All he can.
The meanest thing
A man can do,
Is to get his gains
From me or you.
Rhymes and jingles by Mary Mapes Dodge
