354 NURSERY RHYMES,

And was going to the window
To say, How do you do?

But he shook his little tail,
And far away he flew.

DCXXI.
{The following stanza is of very considerable antiquity, and is common in Yorkshire,
— See Hunter’s ‘* Hallamshire Glossary,” p. 50]
_ Lapy-cow, lady-cow. fly thy way home,
Thy house is on fire, thy children all gone,
All but one, that ligs under a stone,
Fly thee home, lady-cow, ere it be gone.

DCXXII.
THERE was a piper, he’d a cow,
And he’d no hay to give her,
He took his pipes and played a tune.
Consider, old cow, consider !

The cow considered very well,
For she gave the piper a penny,
That he might play the tune again
Of “Corn-rigs are bonnie!”

DCXXITI.
I HAD a little cow;
Hey-diddle, ho-diddle!
I had a little cow, and it had a little calf;
Hey-diddle, ho-diddle ; and there’s my song half.