The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Nursery Rhyme Book, by UnknownThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: The Nursery Rhyme BookAuthor: UnknownEditor: Andrew LangIllustrator: L. Leslie BrookeRelease Date: August 6, 2008 [EBook #26197]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY RHYME BOOK ***Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book wasproduced from scanned images of public domain materialfrom the Google Print project.)The NurseryRhyme BookLittle Bo-Peep Little Bo-PeepTitle PagePrinted by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.At the Ballantyne PressPrefaceO read the old Nursery Rhymes brings back queer lost memories of a man's own childhood. One seems to see theT loose floppy picture-books of long ago, with their boldly coloured pictures. The books were tattered and worn, and myfirst library consisted of a wooden box full of these volumes. And I can remember being imprisoned for some crime in thecloset where the box was, and how my gaolers found me, happy and impenitent, sitting on the box, with its contents allround me, reading.There was "Who Killed Cock Robin?" which I knew by heart before I could read, and I learned to read (entirely "withouttears") by ...
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