Lullaby & Poppies From Flowerland!

“LULLABY”

WIDE awake! wide awake!

Baby’s so wide awake,

What can I bring that will lull her to rest?

Poppies from Flowerland,

Raindrops from Showerland,

Silent slow shadows that creep up the west.

Laughings and cooings – oh, what roguish doings!

Why, this is sleepy-time, Baby, you know.

What can I bring to her,

What can I sing to her,

So that my baby to Dreamland may go?

Lullaby, lullaby, sing a song dull, oh, bye,

Bye, little Baby, now shut up your eyes!

Moon shadowed now’s the land,

Dreams come from Drowsyland,

Droop, dreamy eyelids, and lie sleepy wise.

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Henry Altemus Company: Philadelphia. 1906.

Her Fairy Baby By Day – A Frog At Night!

The Viking’s Wife Finds the Frog.

 . . . When she awoke, a little before sunrise, what was her grief to find the child gone! Dressing in haste, and lighting a pine torch, she found the place of the child had been taken by a great ugly frog!

Filled with fear, she seized a stick to kill the frog; but it looked at her with such sad, gentle eyes that she could not bring herself to do it.

Moving to a closed shutter, she opened it to let in the light of day. Just at that moment the sun rose. Its beams fell on the frog, and lo! the wide mouth became smaller, the limbs grew rounder, and instead of the frog there lay her dear little baby once more!

‘What is this?’ cried the lady. ‘Have I been dreaming?’

Lifting up the child, she pressed it to her heart; but the little one fought and bit like a wild cat.

Before many days had passed, it was plain to the lady that the child was under a spell. During the day it was as lovely as a little fairy, but had a fearful temper; during the night it was a frog, with sad and gentle eyes.

From the Story: The Marsh King’s Daughter.

Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales.

By William Woodburn.

Illustrated by Gordon Robinson.

W. & R. Chambers, Limited: London & Edinburgh. 1917.

Boy on a Chain is a Strange Monkey!

“A STRANGE MONKEY.”

What have we here?

How very queer!

A monkey can it be?

But such a monkey in my life

I ne’er before did see.

Oh, dear, dear, dear,

I sadly fear

That something has gone wrong;

‘Tis Charlie fastened to a chain

That’s stout, and strong, and long.

Mary Had a Little Lamb

And Other Good Stories

Henry Altemus Company: Philadelphia. 1906.

Time Out!

SCOLDING AND TIME OUT FOR DOLLY

Prattles For Our Boys and Girls

Hurst & Co.: New York.  1912

She whipped them all around, and sent them to bed.

“Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.”

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,

She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do.

She gave them some broth, without any bread,

She whipped them all around, and sent them to bed.