E-text prepared by Bebra Knutson and revised by David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net). The original illustrations were generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org). Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 5312-h.htm or 5312-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5312/pg5312-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5312/5312-h.zip) MOTHER GOOSE IN PROSE [Illustration: "There was a little man and he had a little gun"] [Illustration] MOTHER GOOSE IN PROSE by L. FRANK BAUM Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish New York MCMI Contents Introduction 9 Sing a Song o' Sixpence 19 The Story of Little Boy Blue 31 The Cat and the Fiddle 45 The Black Sheep 55 Old King Cole 65 Mistress Mary 75 The Wond'rous Wise Man 89 What Jack Horner Did 99 The Man in the Moon 109 The Jolly Miller 119 The Little Man and His Little Gun 131 Hickory, Dickory, Dock 141 Little Bo-Peep 151 The Story of Tommy Tucker 163 Pussy-cat Mew 175 How the Beggars Came to Town 183 Tom, the Piper's Son 199 Humpty Dumpty 207 The Woman Who Lived in a Shoe 221 Little Miss Muffet 233 Three Wise Men of Gotham 245 Little Bun Rabbit 257 Illustrations "There was a little man and he had a little gun" _Frontispiece_ Little Boy Blue 36 The Black Sheep 58 Old King Cole 68 The Wond'rous Wise Man 92 Jack Horner 102 The Man in the Moon 112 Little Bo-Peep 156 Tommy Tucker 166 Tom, the Piper's Son 200 Humpty Dumpty 212 Three Wise Men of Gotham 248 Introduction.