358 NURSERY RHYMES.

 

The sweetest notes he always sang,
Which much delighted Mary ;
And near the cage she’d ever sit,

To hear her own canary.

DCXXIX.
BLESS you, bless you, bonny bee:
Say, when will your wedding be?
If it be to morrow day,
Take your wings and fly away.

DCXXX.
DICKERY, dickery, dare,
The pig flew up in the air;
The man in brown soon brought him down,
Dickery, dickery, dare.

DCXXXI.

SOME little mice sat in a barn to spin;

Pussy came by and popped her head in;
“Shall I come in, and cut your threads off ?
“Oh. no! kind sir, you will snap our heads off!”

DCXXXIl.
JOHNNY ARMSTRONG killed a calf;
Peter Henderson got the half;
Willy Wilkinson got the head,—
Ring the bell, the calf is dead!