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When all the novelists and spinners of elaborate fictions have been read and judged, we shall find that the peasant and the nurse are still unsurpassed as mere narrators. They are the guardians of that treasury of legend which comes to us from the very childhood of nations; they and their tales are the abstract and brief chronicles, not of an age merely, but of the whole race of man. It is theirs to keep alive the great art of telling stories as a thing wholly apart from and independent of the art of writing stories, and to pass on their art to children and to children's children. They abide in a realm of their own, in blessed isolation from that world of professional authors and their milk-and-water books "for children." --C. B. TINKER, "In Praise of Nursery Lore," _The Unpopular Review_, October-December, 1916.
A TEXTBOOK OF SOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND TEACHER-TRAINING CLASSES
EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES
_BY_ CHARLES MADISON CURRY _AND_ ERLE ELSWORTH CLIPPINGER _Professors of Literature in the Indiana State Normal School_
_Copyright, 1920, by_ RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY
_Copyright, 1921, by_ RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY All rights reserved Edition of 1926
39. If I'd as much money as I could spend 26
53. Little boy blue, come blow your horn 27
54. Little girl, little girl, where have you been 27
74. Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man 29
79. Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been 30
81. Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross 30
84. Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green 30
90. The King of France went up the hill 31
94. The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts 31
96. There was a little boy went into a barn 32
100. There was an old woman, and what do you think 32
101. There was an old woman lived under a hill 32
103. There was an old woman of Norwich 32
104. There was an old woman tossed up in a basket 32
105. There was an old woman who lived in a shoe 33
111. To market, to market, to buy a fat pig 33
115. "Willy boy, Willy boy, where are you going?" 34
141. The Courtship, Merry Marriage, and Picnic Dinner of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren 42
143. Dame Wiggins of Lee, and Her Seven Wonderful Cats 45