ls with the carving knife!
Did you ever see such a thing in your life?
Three blind mice!

110

Three wise men of Gotham
Went to sea in a bowl;
If the bowl had been stronger,
My song would have been longer.

111

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig,
Home again, home again, dancing a jig;
To market, to market, to buy a fat hog,
Home again, home again, jiggety-jog;
To market, to market, to buy a plum bun.
Home again, home again, market is done.

112

Tom, Tom, the piper's son,
Stole a pig and away he run!
The pig was eat, and Tom was beat,
And Tom went roaring down the street!

113

Two-legs sat upon three-legs,
With one-leg in his lap;
In comes four-legs
And runs away with one-leg;
Up jumps two-legs,
Catches up three-legs,
Throws it after four-legs,
And makes him bring one-leg back.

(_One-leg is a leg of mutton;
two-legs, a man; three-legs,
a stool; four-legs, a dog._)

114

The following is another good "tongue twister"
(see No. 77). It is recommended for the little
lisper, and in former days it was recommended
as a sure cure for the hiccoughs.

When a twister a-twisting would twist him a twist,
For twisting a twist three twists he will twist;
But if one of the twists untwists from the twist,
The twist untwisting untwists the twist.

115

"Willy boy, Willy boy, where are you going?
I will go with you, if I may."

"I am going to the meadow to see them a-mowing,
I am going to see them make the hay."

116

No. 116 and the two rhymes following are by
Miss Wilhelmina Seegmiller. (By permission of
the publishers, Rand McNally & Co., Chicago.)
Their presence will allow teachers to compare
some widely and successfully used modern
efforts with the traditional jingles in the
midst of which they are placed.

MILKWEED SEEDS

As white as milk,
As soft as silk,
And hundreds close together:
They sail away,
On an autumn day,
When windy is the weather.

117

AN