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The cover of L. Leslie Brooke's Ring O' Roses (1922) shows nursery rhyme characters performing the game. The origins and earliest wording of the rhyme remain unknown. In many versions of the game, a group of children forms a ring, dances in a circle around one person, and then stoops or curtsies on the final line.
The Queen Was in the Parlour, Eating Bread and Honey, by Valentine Cameron Prinsep.. The rhyme's origins are uncertain. References have been inferred in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (c. 1602), (Twelfth Night 2.3/32–33), where Sir Toby Belch tells a clown: "Come on; there is sixpence for you: let's have a song" and in Beaumont and Fletcher's 1614 play Bonduca, which contains the line "Whoa ...
Children's literature portal; There's a Wocket in My Pocket! is a short children's book by Dr. Seuss, published by Random House in 1974. It features a little boy talking about the strange creatures that live in his house, such as the yeps on the steps, the nooth grush on his toothbrush, the wasket in his basket, the zamp in a lamp, the yottle in the bottle, and the Nureau in the bureau.
Mumblety-peg (also known as mumbley-peg, mumbly-peg, [1] mumblepeg, mumble-the-peg, mumbledepeg, mumble peg or mumble-de-peg) is an old outdoor game played using pocketknives. [2]
I go back home with a pocket full of tin, Oh, doo-dah day! CHORUS Gonna run all night! Gonna run all day! I'll bet my money on the bob-tail nag, Somebody bet on the bay. The long tail filly and the big black hoss, Doo-dah! doo-dah! They fly the track and they both cut across, Oh, doo-dah-day! The blind hoss sticken in a big mud hole, Doo-dah ...
The title of Richard E. Grant’s memoir, “A Pocketful of Happiness,” is both misleading and utterly truthful. On the one hand, the book is full of charming anecdotes which are indicative of ...
Pocketful of Rye or pocket full of rye may refer to: A Pocket Full of Rye, a 1953 detective novel by Agatha Christie "A pocket full of rye", a lyric from the nursery rhyme, "Sing a Song of Sixpence" A Pocketful of Rye, a 1969 novel by A. J. Cronin
Historically, the term "pocket" referred to a pouch worn around the waist by women in the 17th to 19th centuries. Skirts or dresses of the time had an opening at the waistline to allow access to the pocket which hung around the woman's waist by a ribbon or tape.