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    The Jingle Book
    The Jingle Book
    The Jingle Book
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    The Jingle Book

    By Oliver Herford and Carolyn Wells

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013

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      Book preview

      The Jingle Book - Oliver Herford

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Jingle Book, by Carolyn Wells

      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

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: The Jingle Book

      Author: Carolyn Wells

      Illustrator: Oliver Herford

      Release Date: February 9, 2008 [EBook #24560]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE JINGLE BOOK ***

      Produced by Anne Storer and the Online Distributed

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

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      THE JINGLE BOOK

      The Tutor

      A tutor who tooted the flute

      Tried to teach two young tooters to toot.

      Said the two to the tutor,

      "Is it harder to toot, or

      To tutor two tooters to toot?"

      THE JINGLE BOOK

      BY

      CAROLYN WELLS

      Pictured by

      OLIVER HERFORD

      New York

      THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

      LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.

      1901

      All rights reserved

      Copyright, 1899,

      By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

      Set up and electrotyped October, 1899. Reprinted November, 1899; June, 1901.

      To Hilda’s Child

      CONTENTS

      The Jingle Book

      A Serious Question

      A kitten went a-walking

      One morning in July,

      And idly fell a-talking

      With a great big butterfly.

      The kitten’s tone was airy,

      The butterfly would scoff;

      When there came along a fairy

      Who whisked his wings right off.

      And then—for it is written

      Fairies can do such things—

      Upon the startled kitten

      She stuck the yellow wings.

      The kitten felt a quiver,

      She rose into the air,

      Then flew down to the river

      To view her image there.

      With fear her heart was smitten,

      And she began to cry,

      "Am I a butter-kitten?

      Or just a kitten-fly?"

      Two Old Kings

      Oh! the King of Kanoodledum

      And the King of Kanoodledee,

      They went to sea

      In a jigamaree—

      A full-rigged jigamaree.

      And one king couldn’t steer,

      And the other, no more could he;

      So they both upset

      And they both got wet,

      As wet as wet could be.

      And one king couldn’t swim

      And the other, he couldn’t, too;

      So they had to float,

      While their empty boat

      Danced away o’er the sea so blue.

      Then the King of Kanoodledum

      He turned a trifle pale,

      And so did he

      Of Kanoodledee,

      But they saw a passing sail!

      And one king screamed like fun

      And the other king screeched like mad,

      And a boat was lowered

      And took them aboard;

      And, my! but those kings were glad!

      A Day Dream

      Polly’s patchwork—oh, dear me!—

      Truly is a sight to see.

      Rumpled, crumpled, soiled, and frayed—

      Will the quilt be ever made?

      See the stitches yawning wide—

      Can it be that Polly tried?

      Some are right and some are wrong,

      Some too short and

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