JINGLES.

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TETAS?

JINGLES.

A rhyme evidently the invention of some mother quite worn out with the

importunities of her children for stories :

- FLL tell you a story
I About Jack a-Nory —
And now my story’s begun,
Vl tell you another
About Jack and his brother —=
And now my story’s done.

OR every evil under the sun
There is a remedy or there is none:
If there be one, try and find it ;
If there be none, never mind it.

This proverb,is from Benjamin Franklin’s “ Poor Richard’s Almanac,”

WE that would thrive
Must rise at five ;

He that hath thriven

May lie till seven ;

And he that by the plough would thrive
Yimself must either hold or drive.

 

x © to bed first, a golden purse ;
Go to bed second, a golden pheasant ;
Go to bed third, a golden bird!

 

 

Hallowell, an authority, says that the first three verses of this tale compriss
all of the original, and that the rest are a modern addition. The evidence oi
the antiquity of the story lies in itself. The rhyming of laughing to coffin
in the third stanza establishes it, for this word was formerly pronounced /ay-
jing, and was so spelt. In Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act
II, scene st; ‘‘ And then the whole quire hold their hips and Jaffe.”

LD Mcther Hubbard
Went to her cupboard,
To get her poor dog a bone ;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But when she came there

| The cupboard was bare,

And so the poor dog had none,