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More Jolly Rhymes of Mother Goose — Lois Lenski, 1922

Posted on July 7, 2010August 2, 2015 by Martha

This is the last of the Lenski nursery rhyme pictures, and there were a couple of rhymes here I didn’t know.

This one is very sweet….

Bossy-Cow, Bossy-Cow

Bossy-cow, bossy.cow, where do you lie?
In the green meadow under the sky.

Billy-horse, billy-horse, where do you lie?
Out in the stable with nobody nigh.

Birdies bright, birdies sweet, where do you lie?
Up in the tree-tops, –oh, ever so high!

Baby dear, baby love, where do you lie?
In my warm crib, with Mama close by.

And this one is very strange….

There Was a Man In Our Town

There was a man in our town,
And he was wondrous wise;
He jumped into a bramble bush,
And scratched out both his eyes;

And when he saw his eyes were out,
With all high might and main,
He jumped into another bush,
And scratched them in again.

7 thoughts on “More Jolly Rhymes of Mother Goose — Lois Lenski, 1922”

  1. Jan says:
    July 8, 2010 at 8:56 pm

    You are right, the Bossy-cow is very charming, but scratching eyes out should not be a topic of poetry, even if he did scratch them back in!

    I love the spinning mice!

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  2. mickie says:
    July 9, 2010 at 4:56 am

    How wonderful! 🙂

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  3. Barbara says:
    July 9, 2010 at 8:09 am

    That last one is a little disturbing!

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  4. pratima says:
    July 9, 2010 at 12:29 pm

    oooh… so sad that it’s the last one. I very much enjoyed these drawings and cute poems (weird ones too). I would be all ears, if someone makes up lovely stories from these pictures. Thanks a lot, Martha for all the smiles 🙂
    Have a great weekend!

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  5. Allie says:
    July 10, 2010 at 7:04 pm

    Love the first one but boy that second one is strange, lol! Lovely pics – thanks Martha!

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  6. Wanetha says:
    July 10, 2010 at 8:42 pm

    My favorite one in this group has to be Jack and Jill.
    Sweet little dress on Jill.

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  7. Ann says:
    July 11, 2010 at 7:26 pm

    The illustrations are wonderful! Bossy-Cow is really sweet and the bramble bush man is indeed rather disturbing. Reminds me of a version of See-saw Majorie Daw which I had to stop reading rather abruptly because it got kind of ugly in today’s terminology.

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