Mother Goose's Menagerie (Illustrated Edition) - Carolyn Wells

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       Carolyn Wells

      Mother Goose's Menagerie

      (Illustrated Edition)

      Children's Book Classic Illustrator: Peter Newell

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       [email protected] 2017 OK Publishing ISBN 978-80-272-2305-3

      Table of Contents

       Tim and Tilly

       Mother Hubbard's Dog

       Mary's Lamb

       Miss Muffett's Spider

       The Five Little Pigs

       Red Ridinghood's Wolf

       The Cow That Jumped Over the Moon

       The Four-And-Twenty Blackbirds

       The Three Blind Mice

       The Frog Who Would A-Wooing Go

       The Three Bears

       The Pussy-Cat Who Visited the Queen

       The Mouse That Ran Up the Clock

       The Lion and the Unicorn

       The Little Dog That Laughed

      To my niece

       M A R G E R Y W E L L S

      Tim and Tilly

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      Two little children, once there were,

       Whose names were Tim and Tilly.

       His skin was brown and rosy; her

       Fair face was like a lily.

       And they were just as good as gold,

       And always did as they were told.

       Their pretty ways

       Deserve much praise,

       Dear little Tim and Tilly.

       One summer morning, hand in hand

       Along the roadside walking,

       Tilly and Tim went singing, and

       Occasionally talking,

       When, being tired, they thought it best

       Upon a stone to sit and rest.

       To them there came

       An aged Dame

       Along the roadside walking.

       "Good-morning," said she, "children dear;"

       "Good-day," said they, politely.

       Her dress was just a trifle queer,

       Though not at all unsightly.

       She wore a quilted petticoat,

       A cap with buckles at the throat,

       A peaked hat,

       With brim quite flat,

       But not at all unsightly.

       "Perhaps, my dears, you don't know me;"

       "No, ma'am," they answered, smiling.

       "Why, I am Mother Goose," said she

       (Her manner was beguiling).

       "I'm on a journey to my Zoo,

       I'm sure that it would interest you,

       And if you'd care

       To visit there—"

       "Yes, ma'am!" they answered, smiling.

       "Jump on my broomstick, then," she cried,

       "Dear little Tim and Tilly,

       T will be a long and rapid ride,

       I hope you won't be chilly."

       They took their places nothing loth,

       She wrapped her cloak about them both;

       With wild delight

       They held on tight

       And were not even chilly.

       After they'd gone a mile or three,

       They reached their destination;

       And Mother Goose said pleasantly,

       "Welcome to my plantation."

       Then every kind of sound was heard,

       The purr of cat and song of bird,

       The bark of dog

       And croak of frog,

       Around the whole plantation.

       Joyfully Tim and Tilly spied

       Animals of all ages;

       Some walking with a stately stride,

       And some shut up in cages.

       In kennels, stables, stalls, and pens,

       In coops and holes and caves and dens,

       In ponds and brooks,

       In nests and nooks,

       Were creatures of all ages.

       Now Tilly, as I must admit,

       Was just a trifle fearful;

       But Tim said, "I don't mind a bit,

       They're all so kind and cheerful."

       And this was true. You never saw

       Animals that inspired less awe;

       Even the Bears

       Sat in their lairs

       With aspect kind and cheerful.

       "Dear Mother Goose," then Tilly said,

       "May we not interview them?

       That dog, and lamb, and robin red,

       I feel as if I knew them!"

       Said Mother Goose,

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