Rhymes and jingles by Mary Mapes Dodge

Dodge, Mary Mapes (1830-1905)

[dedication]

[Fire in the window! flashes in the pane!]

Bye Baby Night is Come

[Oh, no!]

Let's Play

Little Jo's Compliment

The Pensive Cricket.

[When I am big, I mean to buy]

ELFIN JACK the Giant Killer

TROUBLED

[A black-nosed kitten will slumber all the day]

[Don't trust Chatter, who whispers low]

[Here's plenty of shells and clay and water]

Little Charley

Making it Skip

Hark my Children

[Wind for the tree-top, sun for the spear]

FARM LESSONS

STOCKING SONG ON CHRISTMAS EVE

BELLE AND THE SILVER DISH-COVER

Snow, Snow, Everywhere!

[Gluck! gluck! From under a log]

[Bright little buttercup, now you will show]

[Oh, I'd search the world over]

[Wire-locks, Curly-pate, Tangle, and Floss]

[Hollyhock, hollyhock, bend for me]

Bumble of Bumbleby

[Sunlight or starlight]

[A lad of Nansook]

[Blow loud for the blossoms that live in the trees]

[Little Polly, always clever]

Burs

The Ants

[The Moon came late to a lonesome bog]

[Ho, Dandelion! my lightsome fellow!]

Hobbledy Hops

Good Mistress Sundial

[Something in the garden murmurs all the day]

[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]

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]

THE SUN AND THE STARS

[If cows wore satin slippers]

[Bumble, bramble, which came first, sir]

[There was a brave knight of Lorraine]

[A farmer in Bungleton had a colt]

[There was a shrewd lad of Cooloo]

Among the Animals

[Poor little Toddlekins]

[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?]

The Frog who wouldn't A-Wooing go

The Pig and the Lark

[I gave my puss a mac-a-roon]

[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

[There was a rare boy who fell ill]

[There was an old doctor of Brille]

[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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The Little Dutchman

Oh, I'm a little Tuchman,
My name is Van der Dose,
An' vat I cannot get to eat,
I smells it mit my nose.

An' ven dey vill not let me blay,
I takes it out in vork;
And ven dey makes me vork too hard,
I soon de jop will shirk.

An' ven dey sends me off to ped,
I lays avake all night;
An' ven dey comes to vake me up,
I shuts my eyes up tight.

For I'm a little Tuchman,
My name is Van der Dose,
An' vat I do not know meinself,
I never vants to knows.

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The Little Dutchman