MONEY RHYMES--"How a lass gave her lover three slips for a tester"--"Little Mary Esther"--"Sing a Song of Sixpence"--"There was an old man in a velvet coat"--"See-saw"--"One a penny"--"There's never a maiden in all the town"--"Pinky, pinky, bow-bell"--Numerical Nursery Rhyme--Baker's Man 134 X. SCRAPS--"Oh, slumber, my darling, thy sire is a knight"--"Bye, baby bumpkin"--"Nose, nose, jolly red nose"--"I saw a man in the moon"--A Henry VIII. Rhyme--"Peg-Peg"--"Round about"--"Father Long-legs"--"Two-penny rice"--"Come when you're called"--A Game--"Nanny Natty Coat"--"As I was going down Sandy Lane"--"There was an old woman"--"Robert Rowley"--"Little General Monk"--"Dr. Tom Tit"--"Tommy Trot"--"Goosey Gander"--"The White Dove sat on the Castell Wall"--"This Little Pig"--"Little Bo Peep"--"See-saw, Margery Daw"--"Four-and-twenty Tailors"--"Little Moppet"--"Hub-a-dub, dub"--"Diddle Dumpling"--"Jack and Jyll"--"The Cat and the Fiddle"--"Baa! baa! black sheep"--"Here comes a poor Duke out of Spain"--"Ride to the market"--"Cross-patch"--"The Man of the South"--A Lancashire Fragment--"Dickery dock"--"There was an old woman toss'd up in a blanket"--"We're all in the dumps"--A Proverb--A Compliment--The Reverse 141 XI. SONGS--"Will the love that you're so rich in?"--"Cock-a-doodle doo"--"King Cole"--"Rowsty dowt"--"There was a Little Man"--The Creole's Song--"Dapple Grey"--"Blue Betty"--"Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son"--"Oh dear, what can the matter be?"--"Simple Simon"--"I saw a Ship a-sailing"--"David the Welshman"--"My Father he Died" 152 XII. SCOTCH RHYMES--"As I went up the Brandy Hill"--Scotch version of Bryan O'Lynn--"Cripple Dick"--"Pan, Pan, Play"--"Gi'e a thing"--A Gruesome Riddle--"King and Queen of Cantelon"--Hidee--"Wha's your Daddie?"--"The Moon is a Lady" 162 XIII. A favourite Nursery Hymn--The Latin version of the Virgin's Lullaby 169 XIV. "There was a maid came out of Kent"--"Martin Smart"--"Great A, little B"--A Nursery Tale--"A duck, a drake"--"Hark! Hark!"--A B C Jingles--A Catch Rhyme 173 XV. BELL RHYMES--"Banbury Cross"--"Gay go up, and gay go down"--"Mary, Mary, quite contrary"--The Provençal "Ding-dong" 178 XVI. Political Significations of Nursery Rhymes--"Come, Jack"--"A man of words"--Pastorini, Lord Grey, Lyttleton, Dan O'Connell, and Lord Brougham caricatured 185 INTRODUCTION