Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories / A Book for Bairns and Big Folk

Red, white, yellow, blue, All out but you,

Eenity, feenity, fickety, feg, El, del, domen, egg, Irky, birky, story, rock, Ann, Dan, Toosh, Jock.

when fully grown, to fly away. Then, when their own imaginative resources begin to fail them, one observes children begin to read books of adventure with avidity—at the age, say, of ten or twelve years. Before that, no Rover of the Andes or Erling the Bold can equal the heroic achievements they evolve from their inner consciousness."

Ruskin says of children: "They are forced by nature to develop their powers of invention, as a bird its feathers of flight;" and we might add, remarks another writer, "that the inventive faculty, like a bird, is apt,

That lay in the house That Jack built. This is the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house That Jack built. This is the cow with the crumpled horn That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house That Jack built. This is the maiden all for

THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. This is the house that Jack built. This is the malt That lay in the house That Jack built. This is the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house That Jack built. This is the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt

to give him? I don't think so. Would you like a sweet? Yes.

Here comes a poor sailor from Botany Bay; Pray, what are you going to give him to-day? A pair of boots [may be the answer]. What colour are they? Brown. Have you anything else to give him? I think so. What colour is it? Red. What is it made of? Cloth. And what colour? Blue. Have you anything else

You must say neither "Yes," "No," nor "Nay," "Black," "White," nor "Grey."

"Here Comes a Poor Sailor from Botany Bay."