CHILDREN'S LITERATURE When all the novelists and spinners of elaborate fictions have been read and judged, we shall find that the peasant and the nurse are still unsurpassed as mere narrators. They are the guardians of that treasury of legend which comes to us from the very childhood of nations; they and their tales are the abstract and brief chronicles, not of an age merely, but of the whole race of man. It is theirs to kecp alive the great art of telling stories as a thing wholly apart from and independent of the art of writing stories, and to pass on their art to children and to children's children. They abide in a realm of their own, in blessed isolation from that world of professional authors and their milk-and-water books for children." LITERATURE A TEXTBOOK OF SOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND TEACHER- TRAINING CLASSES EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTIONS, BY CHARLES MADISON CURRY AND RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY CHICAGO NEW YORK 36. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall . 37. If all the sea were one sea 38. If all the world was apple-pie 39. If I'd as much money as I could 43. I had a little hobby horse 46. In marble walls as white as milk . 47. I went up one pair of stairs 48. Jack and Jill went up the hill 50. Jack Sprat could eat no fat. 52. Ladybird, ladybird, fly away MOTHER GOOSE (Shorter rhymes): 1. A cat came fiddling out of a barn 4. As I was going up Pippen Hill 9. Barber, barber, shave a pig 10. Birds of a feather flock together. 11. Bless you, bless you, burnie bee . 12. Bobby Shafto's gone to sea . 22. Eggs, butter, cheese, bread you been 55. Little Jack Horner. 56. Little Jack Jingle 57. Little Johnny Pringle 58. Little Miss Muffet 59. Little Nancy Etticoat 60. Little Robin Redbreast. 61. Little Tommy Tucker 62. Long legs, crooked thighs 63. Lucy Locket lost her pocket 64. Matthew Mark, Luke, and John 65. Mistress Mary, quite contrary 66. Multiplication is vexation 67. Needles and pins. 68. Old King Cole. 69. Once I saw a little bird . 504331 |