Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes, Walter Crane
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes
Walter Crane
Category: Children
Genres: Nursery rhymes,Poetry,Fairytale
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Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes is an 1877 illustrated collection of Alphabets, Rhymes, Tales, and Jingles by Walter Crane. The collection includes most famous nursery rhymes, such as Humpty-Dumpty, Hush-a-bye baby, Rain rain go away etc.

Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes

A Collection of Alphabets, Rhymes, Tales, and Jingles

by
Walter Crane

Illustrations by
Sir John Gilbert, R.A., John Tenniel, Harrison Weir,
Walter Crane, W. McConnell, J. B. Zwecker
and others

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

Old Mother Goose

Old Mother Goose, when
She wanted to wander,
Would ride through the air
On a very fine gander.

Mother Goose had a house,
’Twas built in a wood,
Where an owl at the door
For sentinel stood.

This is her son Jack,
A plain-looking lad,
He is not very good,
Nor yet very bad.

She sent him to market,
A live goose he bought,
“Here, mother,” says he,
“It will not go for nought.”

Jack’s goose and her gander
Grew very fond,
They’d both eat together,
Or swim in one pond.

“She sent him to market, a live goose he bought.” “She sent him to market, a live goose he bought.”

Jack found one fine morning
As I have been told,
His goose had laid him
An egg of pure gold.

Jack rode to his mother,
The news for to tell,
She called him a good boy
And said it was well.

Jack sold his gold egg
To a rogue of a Jew,
Who cheated him out of
The half of his due.

Then Jack went a-courting
A lady so gay,
As fair as the lily,
And sweet as the May.

The Jew and the Squire
Came behind his back,
And began to belabour
The sides of poor Jack.

And then the gold egg
Was thrown into the sea,

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

When Jack he jumped in,
And got it back presently.

The Jew got the goose,
Which he vowed he would kill,
Resolving at once
His pockets to fill.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

Jack’s mother came in,
And caught the goose soon,
And mounting its back,
Flew up to the moon.

Boys and Girls, Come out to Play

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

Boys and girls, come out to play,
The moon does shine as bright as day,
Leave your supper, and leave your sleep,
And meet your playfellows in the street;
Come with a whoop, and come with a call,
And come with a good will, or not at all.
Up the ladder and down the wall,
A halfpenny loaf will serve us all.
You find milk and I’ll find flour,
And we’ll have a pudding in half an hour.

Tom Thumbs Alphabet

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

A was an Archer,
who shot at a frog.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

B was a Butcher,
who had a great dog.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

C was a Captain,
all covered with lace.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

D was a Drummer,
who played with a grace.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

E was an Esquire with pride on his brow.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

F was a Farmer,
who followed the plough.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

G was a Gamester,
who had but ill-luck.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

H was a Hunter,
who hunted a buck.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

I was an Italian,
who had a white mouse.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

J was a Joiner,
who built up a house.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

K was a King,
so mighty and grand.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

L was a Lady,
who had a white hand.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

M was a Miser,
who hoarded up gold.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

N was a Nobleman,
gallant and bold.