{"product_id":"2940016181189","title":"Jingles of a Happy Mother Goose: with illustrations","description":"Jingles of a Happy Mother Goose By Emma S. Seale. Published in San Francisco in 1911. With Illustrations By Gertrude Marin. Contains 99 of Mother Goose's favorite rhymes. (68 pages)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...THIS has been called \"the century of the child,\" and truly we have just commenced to study the child as a personality and to perceive the child's natural right to happiness of mind as well as to that happiness of body which is called \"health.\" Realizing how potent is the power of all good thought planted in the fertile ground of the mind of a growing child, the careful modern mother hesitates over the old Mother Goose rhymes. Dear as they are for old custom's sake, many of them are brutal, or too sad to be mentally healthful at a time when the little brain is most plastic to absorb and strong to retain. \u003cbr\u003e...We who have felt their spell cannot bear to part with them altogether, so it has been found possible to turn to good that which seemed evil. In this little volume the objectionable parts of the old verses have been altered so that there is not a line remaining to engender unbeautiful or fearful images in the youthful imagination; and withal the ancient charm and swing remain. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpts:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLITTLE Bo-peep so loves her sheep \u003cbr\u003eShe knows just where to find them; \u003cbr\u003eIf she leaves them alone they'll all come home \u003cbr\u003eBringing their lambs behind them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLittle Bo-peep fell fast asleep \u003cbr\u003eAnd dreamt she heard them calling; \u003cbr\u003eBut when she awoke she found it a joke, \u003cbr\u003eFor still they all were browsing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne day she took her little crook, \u003cbr\u003eHappy once more to lead them; \u003cbr\u003eShe found a big stone that stood all alone \u003cbr\u003eWhere they played with the lambkins near them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt happened one day, as Bo-peep did stray \u003cbr\u003eInto a meadow hard by, \u003cbr\u003eThat there she espied them all side by side, \u003cbr\u003eSo lovingly did each one lie. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe looked at them long, then sang them a song, \u003cbr\u003eAs over the hillocks they played; \u003cbr\u003eShe did what she could, as a shepherdess should, \u003cbr\u003eTo make them all happy and quite unafraid. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e============\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI HAD a little pony, \u003cbr\u003eThey called him Dapple-gray; \u003cbr\u003eI lent him to a lady \u003cbr\u003eTo ride a mile away. \u003cbr\u003eShe petted him, she loved him, \u003cbr\u003eShe kept him from the mire; \u003cbr\u003eI'll always lend my pony now \u003cbr\u003eFor the little lady's hire.","brand":"Digital Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071178293488,"sku":"2940016181189","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016181189_p0.jpg?v=1763630467","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016181189","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}