Week 12 Reading Notes: Nursery Rhymes, Section B

Nursery Rhymes, Section B

Jingles:

"HEY! diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laugh'd
To see the sport,
While the dish ran after the spoon."

"TO market, to market, to buy a fat pig;

Home again, home again, dancing a jig
Ride to the market to buy a fat hog;
Home again, home again, jiggery-jog."

"RUB a dub dub,

Three men in a tub:
And who do you think they be?
The butcher, the baker,
The candlestick-maker;
Turn 'em out, knaves all three!"

Love and Matrimony:

"CURLY locks! curly locks! wilt thou be mine?
Thou shalt not wash dishes, nor yet feed the swine,
But sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam,
And feed upon strawberries, sugar, and cream!"

• An old creepy dude kidnapped a kid with curly locks and he wants to marry her. Hella creepy dude...

"What age may she be? What age may she be?

My boy Willy?"
"Twice two, twice seven,
Twice ten, twice eleven:
But, oh! she's too young
To be taken from her mammy."

Natural History:

"BETTY PRINGLE had a little pig,

Not very little and not very big;
When he was alive he lived in clover;
But now he's dead, and that's all over.
So Billy Pringle he laid down and cried,
And Betty Pringle she laid down and died;
So there was an end of one, two, and three:
Billy Pringle he,
Betty Pringle she,
And the piggy wiggy."

• Betty Pringle can be the protagonist of the story. Her pig escaped so she goes out to look for it and then she gets kidnapped by the creepy man who wants to marry her.

Betty Pringle's dad

"CURR dhoo, curr dhoo,

Love me, and I'll love you!"

"BAH, bah, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
"Yes, marry, have I,
Three bags full:
One for my master,
And one for my dame,
But none for the little boy
Who cries in the lane."

Relics:

"HANNAH BANTRY in the pantry,
Eating a mutton bone;
How she gnawed it, how she clawed it,
When she found she was alone!"

• Betty ends up killing the creepy dude, but is trapped in his house so when she is found... months later. She had eaten most of the creepy dude.