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Title: Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories
A Book for Bairns and Big Folk

Author: Robert Ford

Release Date: January 13, 2008 [eBook #24271]

Language: English

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CHILDREN'S RHYMES

CHILDREN'S GAMES

CHILDREN'S SONGS

CHILDREN'S STORIES

A Book for Bairns and Big Folk

by

ROBERT FORD

Author of "Thistledown," and Editor of
"Ballads of Bairnhood," "Vagabond Songs
and Ballads of Scotland" Etc., etc.

"_Auld rhymes and auld chimes
Gar us think on auld times_"
--_Proverb_

[Illustration: JINGO-RING.
DRAWN BY KATE T. HILL.]

Paisley: Alexander Gardner
Publisher to the late Queen Victoria: 1904

Second Edition

PREFACE.

In offering to the public this collection of Children's Rhymes,
Children's Games, Children's Songs, and Children's Stories--the
multitudinous items of which, or such, at least, as were not living in
my own memory, have been gathered with patient industry, albeit with
much genuine delight, from wide and varied sources--I anticipate for the
work a hearty and general welcome, alike from old and young. It is the
first really sincere effort to collect in anything