 | Richard Lane Freer - 1866 - 316 Seiten
...stigmatized as absurd — "Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds liaked in a pie. When the pie was opened The birds began to sing, And was not this a dainty dish To set before a King?" But if we think this strange, what shall we say... | |
 | 1853 - 322 Seiten
...Pocket full of rye, Four and twenty block-hirds Made into a pic." " AVhon the pio was opened Tho hirds began to sing. Was not that a dainty dish To set before a king." Now I don't think that is a true song. So I will write the little, the very little readers... | |
 | Robert Henry Newell - 1868 - 320 Seiten
...be king, — 'Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds Cooked into a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Isn't this a pretty dish To set before a king ? ' " Thus went on this aged man, introducing all the... | |
 | Old nursery songs - 1869 - 348 Seiten
...cat's run away with the pudding-bag string. a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened the birds began to sing, And was not that a dainty dish to set before the king ? The king was in the parlour, counting out his... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1870 - 524 Seiten
...labra sonent. FEG 54 A Song of Sixpence ING a song of sixpence, sing it to the sky : four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie : when the pie was opened...was not that a dainty dish to set before the king? GAMMER GURTON 55 Humpty Dumpty TJUMPTY Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall : • not... | |
 | Merry heart, Melville Gray - 1871 - 244 Seiten
...Remember what old nurse has sung Of busy Lady Wind ! THE SONG OF SIXPENCE. Sing a song of sixpence, a bag full of rye, Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a...; When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing : And was not that a dainty dish to set before the king ? The king was in the parlour, counting o'er... | |
 | 1871 - 72 Seiten
...CHANSONS ENFANTINES. I. The Song of Sixpence. Sing a song of sixpence, A bag full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie ; When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing ; Was not this a dainty dish To set before the king ? The king was in his counting-house Counting out his money... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - 1873 - 264 Seiten
...garrula lingua foret." " That 's the real original," said Tix, " of the dear old nursery rhyme about four-andtwenty blackbirds baked in a pie — ' When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing ; Wasn't that a pretty dish to set before the king ? ' " " What 's the proper reading of the last stanza... | |
 | Frederic Edward Weatherly - 1874 - 168 Seiten
...politeness had now entirely vanished through the ends of his fingers : " the lot of birds, to be sure ! " Four-and-twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie ; When the pie was opened, The King began to cry." " No, no ! " cried Elsie : " that 's quite wrong. "When the pie was opened, The... | |
 | Georgiana Charlotte Clark - 1876 - 296 Seiten
...sung, which much delighted Mary, — Who often where her cage was hung would sit to hear canary 50 Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye; —...pie was opened, the birds began to sing ;— Was not this a dainty dish to set before the king?— The king was in his counting-house, counting out his... | |
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Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before the king? 
