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Elephants, those kingly beasts, get their buns. But there is a rhyme in this book about a King who had a hard time getting so much as a piece of butter for the royal slice of bread. He asked the Queen to tell the Dairymaid to tell the Alderney to be sure to make some butter...
...Alderney was obedient and made lots of butter. But a certain lady in another rhyme was not obedient. It is sad, the story about...
...disobeyed, thinking she could get back in time for tea. She hasn't been heard of since, though the King offered a reward. The last verse of this rhyme is like the first ; and after yon have heard all the ones in between, it will not be hard to read it, though it is written this...
More than hopeful is the verse. Neatly turned thought, a delicate appreciation of the meaning and use of words, a feeling for rhyme and for lyrical quality, frank delight in the fun of putting an idea onto paper, and not a vulgar line--all these make one wonder whether these verses can have come from the same group of youths who originated the prose. A momentary irritation at "Poppa", which is not an observant imitation of a child's pronunciation, gives way to an enormous sense of gratification upon finding a college author who can mention thirst without an alcoholic...
...Rensselaer, of Manhattan, to Harold Ingalls Sewall, of Boston and Porto Rico; in Manhattan. It is claimed that Miss Van Rensselaer, a member of one of the oldest families in the U. S., can trace her descent through nine Colonial Governors from the famed Jack Spratt of nursery rhyme...