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    Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes
    Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes
    Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes
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    Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes

    By Isaac Taylor Headland

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes - Isaac Taylor Headland

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes, by Various

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

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      Title: Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes

      Author: Various

      Translator: Isaac Taylor Headland

      Release Date: August 13, 2012 [EBook #40425]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHINESE MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES ***

      Produced by David Edwards, Matthew Wheaton and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive)

      CHINESE MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES

      CHINESE MOTHER

      GOOSE RHYMES

      LITTLE ORIENTALS

      Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes

      TRANSLATED

      AND

      ILLUSTRATED

      BY

      ISAAC TAYLOR HEADLAND

      OF PEKING UNIVERSITY.

      Fleming H. Revell Company

      New York Chicago Toronto

      Copyright, 1900

      By

      Fleming H. Revell Company

      PREFACE

      There are probably more nursery rhymes in China than can be found in England and America. We have in our possession more than six hundred, collected, for the most part, in two out of the eighteen provinces, and we have no reason to believe that we have succeeded in getting any large proportion of what those two provinces contain.

      In most of the rhymes there are features common to those of our own Mother Goose, among which are those referring (1) to insects, (2) animals, (3) birds, (4) persons, (5) children, (6) food, (7) parts of the body, (8) actions, such as patting, grabbing, tickling, etc., (9) professions, trades and business.

      We have tried to reproduce the meaning of the original as nearly as possible; this has not always been an easy task. Let it be understood that these rhymes make no pretentions to literary merit, nor has the translator made any attempt at regularity in the meter, because neither the original nor our own Mother Goose is regular. Our desire has been to make a translation which is fairly true to the original, and which will please English-speaking children. The child, not the critic, has always been kept in view.

      Attention is called to the affection manifested in such rhymes as Sweeter than Sugar, Sweet Pill, Little Fat Boy, and Baby is Sleeping. There is no language in the world, we venture to believe, which contains children's songs expressive of more keen and tender affection than those we have mentioned. This fact, more than any other, has stimulated us in the preparation of these rhymes. They have been prepared with the hope that they will present a new phase of Chinese home life, and lead the children of the West to have some measure of sympathy and affection for the children of the East.

      The compilation was much facilitated by the work done by Baron Vitali, of the Italian Legation in Peking; Rev. Arthur H. Smith, author of Chinese Characteristics; Miss

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