,
With my thread and needle.

2. The old woman who lived in a shoe.

3. Miss Muffet.

4. Mary, Mary, quite contrary.

5. Old King Cole, who called for his fiddlers three.

6. Froggie would a-wooing go,
Whether his mother would let him or no.

7. Goosey goosey gander,
Whither do you wander,
Upstairs, downstairs,
In my lady's chamber.
There I met an old man
Who wouldn't say his prayers,
So I took him by the left leg
And threw him down the stairs.

8. Taffy was a Welshman,
Taffy was a thief,
Taffy came to my house
And stole a piece of beef.

9. Three little kittens
Lost their mittens
And they began to cry.

10. Johnny shall have a new master
And he shall have but a penny a day,
Because he won't work any faster.

11. Dickery, dickery, dock!
The mouse ran up the clock!

12. The cow jumped over the moon.

13. The fair lady of Banbury Cross.
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
She shall have music wherever she goes.

14. The Queen of Heart's tarts.

15. Little Tommy Trout.

16. Little Boy Blue.

17. Little Jack Horner.

18. Little Bo Peep.

19. Jack and Jill.

20. The maid was in the garden
Hanging out the clothes,
When by came a blackbird
And nipped off her nose.

There was a good deal of laughter over the competition and much counting
up of marks. Irene, who had scored eighteen out of the possible twenty,
came out top, and was accordingly handed the pretty little photograph
frame which formed the prize.

"I only got six," mourned Lorna. "I was a perfect duffer at it."

"I had fifteen," purred Sheila, "but I couldn't for the life of me
remember who made Cock Robin's shroud, or who pulled Pussy out of the
well."

"It's such ages since I read any nursery rhymes," said Monica.

"That's just the fun of it, of course!" declared Mary. "Did you make up
the questions, Mrs. Clark?"

"No, I got the Canon to compose them. He'll be glad you liked them. Oh,
here he comes. He had to go to a committee meeting this aft