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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Song of Sixpence + Picture Book + +Author: Walter Crane + +Release Date: May 8, 2006 [EBook #18344] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SONG OF SIXPENCE *** + + + + +Produced by Eileen Gormly, Jason Isbell, Christine D. and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 340px;"> +<a href="images/001.jpg"><img src="images/001th.jpg" width="340" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<h1>THE SONG OF SIXPENCE<br /> +PICTURE BOOK</h1> + + +<h3>CONTAINING<br /> +<a href="#SING_A_SONG_OF_SIXPENCE">SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE</a><br /> +<a href="#PRINCESS_BELLE-ETOILE">PRINCESS BELLE ETOILE</a><br /> +<a href="#AN_ALPHABET_OF_OLD_FRIENDS">ALPHABET OF OLD FRIENDS</a></h3> + +<div class='padding'> +<p class='center'>WALTER<br /> +CRANE'S<br /> +PICTURE<br /> +BOOKS</p></div> + +<p class='center'>LONDON & NEW YORK: JOHN LANE</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 338px;"> +<a href="images/045.jpg"><img src="images/045th.jpg" width="338" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 336px;"> +<a href="images/003.jpg"><img src="images/003th.jpg" width="336" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class='center'><big><span class='red'>T</span>HE <span class='red'>S</span>ONG OF <span class='red'>S</span>IXPENCE<br /> +<span class='red'>PICTURE BOOK</span></big></p> + +<p class='center'><span class='red'>C</span>ONTAINING <span class='red'>S</span>ING A<br /> +<span class='red'>S</span>ONG OF <span class='red'>S</span>IXPENCE; <span class='red'>P</span>RINCESS<br /> +<span class='red'>B</span>ELLE ETOILE; <span class='red'>A</span>N <span class='red'>A</span>LPHABET OF<br /> +<span class='red'>O</span>LD <span class='red'>F</span>RIENDS: WITH THE <span class='red'>O</span>RIGINAL<br /> +<span class='red'>C</span>OLOURED <span class='red'>D</span>ESIGNS BY<br /> +<span class='red'>WALTER CRANE</span><br /> +<small>INCLUDING A PREFACE AND<br /> +OTHER EMBELLISHMENTS</small> +</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 366px;"> +<a href="images/004.jpg"><img src="images/004th.jpg" width="366" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p class='center'> +<span class='red'>L</span>ONDON <span class='red'>& N</span>EW <span class='red'>Y</span>ORK <span class='red'>J</span>OHN <span class='red'>L</span>ANE<br /> +<span class='red'>T</span>HE <span class='red'>B</span>ODLEY <span class='red'>H</span>EAD<br /> +</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<a href="images/005.jpg"><img src="images/005th.jpg" width="400" height="84" alt="Preface" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<h2><a name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></a>PREFACE</h2> + + +<p><big><span class='red'>W</span></big>hether the Poet undertook +to write and SING A SONG +OF SIXPENCE for that popular +price is not stated in his simple +rhyme, but, at all events, we learn that he started +with "a pocket full," and proceeded to draw on +his imagination for all it was worth. What +that famous blackbird-pie really cost—except in black-birds—is +not disclosed, though the King seemed +to show some anxiety about the state of his treasury, +as he was discovered "in his counting house" +imediately after the feast. But while the Queen, +regardless of expense, regales herself on "bread and +honey" in "the parlour", and her Maid-of-honour, or +perhaps of-all-work, is engaged at the clothes-line, +nothing is said about a princess.</p> + +<p>No doubt there was a princess, and that Princess +might have been PRINCESS BELLE-ETOILE? +Anyway here she is in the same +boat—I mean book—and certainly her adventures +are romantic enough to prevent any surprise at +the company in which Her Highness now finds +herself.</p> + +<p>Even princesses cannot do without Alphabets, +and so in her train comes AN ALPHABET in +which will be discovered many OLD and tried +FRIENDS of the Nursery.</p> + +<p>Thus we launch another volume of our series, +like a fairy ship with a rather mixed cargo, +in the hope that—to change the metaphor—like the +blackbird-pie, it may prove, when opened, to be "a +pretty dish to set before—" their Babyships.</p> + +<p class='right'>Walter Crane</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;"> +<img src="images/006th.jpg" width="150" height="144" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Kensington. Sept: 1909</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2><a name="SING_A_SONG_OF_SIXPENCE" id="SING_A_SONG_OF_SIXPENCE"></a>SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE</h2> + +<div class='padding'> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 318px;"> +<a href="images/007.jpg"><img src="images/007th.jpg" width="318" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div></div> + +<div class="padding"> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 335px;"> +<a href="images/009.jpg"><img src="images/009th.jpg" width="335" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 323px;"> +<a href="images/010.jpg"><img src="images/010th.jpg" width="323" height="400" alt="Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye," title="Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye," /></a> +<h3>Sing a song of sixpence,<br /> +A pocket full of rye,</h3></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 320px;"> +<a href="images/011.jpg"><img src="images/011th.jpg" width="320" height="400" alt="Four and twenty black-birds, Baked in a pie" title="Four and twenty black-birds, Baked in a pie" /></a> +</div> +<h3>Four and twenty black-birds,<br /> +Baked in a pie</h3> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 321px;"> +<a href="images/012.jpg"><img src="images/012th.jpg" width="321" height="400" alt="When the pie was open'd The birds began to sing" title="When the pie was open'd The birds began to sing" /></a> +</div> + +<h3>When the pie was open'd<br /> +The birds began to sing +</h3> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 321px;"> +<a href="images/013.jpg"><img src="images/013th.jpg" width="321" height="400" alt="Was'nt that a dainty dish To set before the King?" title="Was'nt that a dainty dish To set before the King?" /></a> +</div> + +<h3>Was'nt that a dainty dish<br /> +To set before the King?</h3> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 319px;"> +<a href="images/014.jpg"><img src="images/014th.jpg" width="319" height="400" alt="The King was in his counting-house, Counting out his money." title="The King was in his counting-house, Counting out his money." /></a> +</div> + +<h3>The King was in his counting-house,<br /> +Counting out his money.</h3> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 320px;"> +<a href="images/015.jpg"><img src="images/015th.jpg" width="320" height="400" alt="The Queen was in the parlour, Eating bread and honey." title="The Queen was in the parlour, Eating bread and honey." /></a> +</div> + +<h3>The Queen was in the parlour,<br /> +Eating bread and honey.</h3> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 320px;"> +<a href="images/016.jpg"><img src="images/016th.jpg" width="320" height="400" alt="The maid was in the garden, Hanging out the clothes;" title="The maid was in the garden, Hanging out the clothes;" /></a> +</div> + +<h3>The maid was in the garden,<br /> +Hanging out the clothes;</h3> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 321px;"> +<a href="images/017.jpg"><img src="images/017th.jpg" width="321" height="400" alt="There came a little blackbird, And nipp'd off her nose." title="There came a little blackbird, And nipp'd off her nose." /></a> +</div> + +<h3>There came a little blackbird,<br /> +And nipp'd off her nose.</h3> + +<div class='padding'> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 335px;"> +<a href="images/009.jpg"><img src="images/009th.jpg" width="335" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;"> +<img src="images/032th.jpg" width="100" height="104" alt="" title="" /> +</div> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="PRINCESS_BELLE-ETOILE" id="PRINCESS_BELLE-ETOILE"></a>PRINCESS BELLE-ETOILE.</h2> + +<div class="padding"> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 314px;"> +<a href="images/021.jpg"><img src="images/021th.jpg" width="314" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 339px;"> +<a href="images/022.jpg"><img src="images/022th.jpg" width="339" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3>PRINCESS BELLE-ETOILE.</h3> + + +<p>Once upon a time there were three Princesses, named Roussette, +Brunette, and Blondine, who lived in retirement with their mother, a +Princess who had lost all her former grandeur. One day an old woman +called and asked for a dinner, as this Princess was an excellent cook. After +the meal was over, the old woman, who was a fairy, promised that their +kindness should be rewarded, and immediately disappeared.</p> + +<p>Shortly after, the King came that way, with his brother and the Lord +Admiral. They were all so struck with the beauty of the three Princesses, +that the King married the youngest, Blondine, his brother married Brunette, +and the Lord Admiral married Roussette.</p> + +<p>The good Fairy, who had brought all this about, also caused the young +Queen Blondine to have three lovely children, two boys and a girl, out +of whose hair fell fine jewels. Each had a brilliant star on the forehead, and +a rich chain of gold around the neck. At the same time Brunette, her sister, +gave birth to a handsome boy. Now the young Queen and Brunette were +much attached to each other, but Roussette was jealous of both, and the old +Queen, the King's mother, hated them. Brunette died soon after the birth +of her son, and the King was absent on a warlike expedition, so Roussette +joined the wicked old Queen in forming plans to injure Blondine. They +ordered Feintise, the old Queen's waiting-woman, to strangle the Queen's +three children and the son of Princess Brunette, and bury them secretly. +But as she was about to execute this wicked order, she was so struck by +their beauty, and the appearance of the sparkling stars on their foreheads, +that she shrank from the deed.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 345px;"> +<a href="images/024.jpg"><img src="images/024th.jpg" width="345" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p>So she had a boat brought round to the beach, and put the four babes, +with some strings of jewels, into a cradle, which she placed in the boat, and +then set it adrift. The boat was soon far out at sea. The waves rose, +the rain poured in torrents, and the thunder roared. Feintise could not doubt +that the boat would be swamped, and felt relieved by the thought that the poor +little innocents would perish, for she would otherwise always be haunted by +the fear that something would occur to betray the share she had had in +their preservation.</p> + +<p>But the good Fairy protected them, and after floating at sea for seven days +they were picked up by a Corsair. He was so struck by their beauty that +he altered his course, and took them home to his wife, who had no children. +She was transported with joy when he placed them in her hands. They +admired together the wonderful stars, the chains of gold that could not be +taken off their necks, and their long ringlets. Much greater was the woman's +astonishment when she combed them, for at every instant there rolled out +of their hair pearls, rubies, diamonds, and emeralds. She told her husband +of it, who was not less surprised than herself.</p> + +<p>"I am very tired," said he, "of a Corsair's life, and if the locks of those +little children continue to supply us with such treasures, I will give up +roaming the seas." The Corsair's wife, whose name was Corsine, was +enchanted at this, and loved the four infants so much the more for it. She +named the Princess, Belle-Etoile, her eldest brother, Petit-Soleil, the second, +Heureux, and the son of Brunette, Cheri.</p> + +<p>As they grew older, the Corsair applied himself seriously to their education, +as he felt convinced there was some great mystery attached to their birth.</p> + +<p>The Corsair and his wife had never told the story of the four children, who +passed for their own. They were exceedingly united, but Prince Cheri entertained +for Princess Belle-Etoile a greater affection than the other two. The +moment she expressed a wish for anything, he would attempt even impossibilities +to gratify her.</p> + +<p>One day Belle-Etoile overheard the Corsair and his wife talking. "When +I fell in with them," said the Corsair, "I saw nothing that could give me any +idea of their birth." "I suspect," said Corsine, "that Cheri is not their +brother, he has neither star nor neck-chain." Belle-Etoile immediately ran +and told this to the three Princes, who resolved to speak to the Corsair and +his wife, and ask them to let them set out to discover the secret of their +birth. After some remonstrance they gained their consent. A beautiful +vessel was prepared, and the young Princess and the three Princes set out. +They determined to sail to the very spot where the Corsair had found them, +and made preparations for a grand sacrifice to the fairies, for their protection +and guidance. They were about to immolate a turtle-dove, but the Princess +saved its life, and let it fly. At this moment a syren issued from the water, +and said, "Cease your anxiety, let your vessel go where it will; land where +it stops." The vessel now sailed more quickly. Suddenly they came in sight +of a city so beautiful that they were anxious their vessel should enter the port. +Their wishes were accomplished; they landed, and the shore in a moment +was crowded with people, who had observed the magnificence of their ship. +They ran and told the King the news, and as the grand terrace of the Palace +looked out upon the sea-shore, he speedily repaired thither. The Princes, +hearing the people say, "There is the King," looked up, and made a profound +obeisance. He looked earnestly at them, and was as much charmed by +the Princess's beauty, as by the handsome mien of the young Princes. He +ordered his equerry to offer them his protection, and everything that they +might require.</p> + +<p>The King was so interested about these four children, that he went into the +chamber of the Queen, his mother, to tell her of the wonderful stars which +shone upon their foreheads, and everything that he admired in them. She +was thunderstruck at it, and was terribly afraid that Feintise had betrayed +her, and sent her secretary to enquire about them. What he told her of +their ages confirmed her suspicions. She sent for Feintise, and threatened to +kill her. Feintise, half dead with terror, confessed all; but promised, if she +spared her, that she would still find means to do away with them. The Queen +was appeased; and, indeed, old Feintise did all she could for her own sake. +Taking a guitar, she went and sat down opposite the Princess's window, +and sang a song which Belle-Etoile thought so pretty that she invited her +into her chamber. "My fair child," said Feintise, "Heaven has made you +very lovely, but you yet want one thing—the dancing-water. If I had +possessed it, you would not have seen a white hair upon my head, nor a +wrinkle on my face. Alas! I knew this secret too late; my charms had +already faded." "But where shall I find this dancing-water?" asked Belle-Etoile. +"It is in the luminous forest," said Feintise. "You have three +brothers; does not any one of them love you sufficiently to go and fetch +some?" "My brothers all love me," said the Princess, "but there is one +of them who would not refuse me anything." The perfidious old woman +retired, delighted at having been so successful. The Princes, returning from +the chase, found Belle-Etoile engrossed by the advice of Feintise. Her +anxiety about it was so apparent, that Cheri, who thought of nothing but +pleasing her, soon found out the cause of it, and, in spite of her entreaties, +he mounted his white horse, and set out in search of the dancing-water. +When supper-time arrived, and the Princess did not see her brother Cheri, +she could neither eat nor drink; and desired he might be sought for everywhere, +and sent messengers to find him and bring him back.</p> + +<div class='padding'> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 342px;"> +<a href="images/025.jpg"><img src="images/025th.jpg" width="342" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div></div> +<div class='padding'> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 343px;"> +<a href="images/026.jpg"><img src="images/026th.jpg" width="343" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div></div> +<div class='padding'> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 345px;"> +<a href="images/027.jpg"><img src="images/027th.jpg" width="345" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div></div> +<div class='padding'> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 340px;"> +<a href="images/028.jpg"><img src="images/028th.jpg" width="340" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div></div> + +<p>The wicked Feintise was very anxious to know the result of her advice; +and when she heard that Cheri had already set out, she was delighted, and +reported to the Queen-Mother all that had passed. "I admit, Madam," said +she, "that I can no longer doubt that they are the same four children: but +one of the Princes is already gone to seek the dancing-water, and will no +doubt perish in the attempt, and I shall find similar means to do away with +all of them."</p> + +<p>The plan she had adopted with regard to Prince Cheri was one of the most +certain, for the dancing-water was not easily to be obtained; it was so +notorious from the misfortunes which occurred to all who sought it, that every +one knew the road to it. He was eight days without taking any repose but in +the woods. At the end of this period he began to suffer very much from the +heat; but it was not the heat of the sun, and he did not know the cause of it, +until from the top of a mountain he perceived the luminous forest; all the +trees were burning without being consumed, and casting out flames to such a +distance that the country around was a dry desert.</p> + +<p>At this terrible scene he descended, and more than once gave himself up +for lost. As he approached this great fire he was ready to die with thirst; and +perceiving a spring falling into a marble basin, he alighted from his horse, +approached it, and stooped to take up some water in the little golden vase +which he had brought with him, when he saw a turtle-dove drowning in +the fountain. Cheri took pity on it, and saved it. "My Lord Cheri," she +said, "I am not ungrateful; I can guide you to the dancing-water, which, +without me, you could never obtain, as it rises in the middle of the forest, +and can only be reached by going underground." The Dove then flew away, +and summoned a number of foxes, badgers, moles, snails, ants, and all sorts +of creatures that burrow in the earth. Cheri got off his horse at the entrance +of the subterranean passage they made for him, and groped his way after +the kind Dove, which safely conducted him to the fountain. The Prince filled +his golden vase; and returned the same way he came.</p> + +<p>He found Belle-Etoile sorrowfully seated under some trees, but when she +saw him she was so pleased that she scarcely knew how to welcome him.</p> + +<p>Old Feintise learned from her spies that Cheri had returned, and that the +Princess, having washed her face with the dancing-water, had become more +lovely than ever. Finding this, she lost no time in artfully making the Princess +sigh for the wonderful singing-apple. Prince Cheri again found her unhappy, +and again found out the cause, and once more set out on his white horse, +leaving a letter for Belle-Etoile.</p> + +<p>In the meanwhile, the King did not forget the lovely children, and reproached +them for never going to the Palace. They excused themselves by saying that +their brother's absence prevented them.</p> + +<p>Prince Cheri at break of day perceived a handsome young man, from +whom he learned where the singing-apple was to be found: but after +travelling some time without seeing any sign of it, he saw a poor turtle-dove +fall at his feet almost dead. He took pity on it, and restored it, when it said, +"Good-day, handsome Cheri, you are destined to save my life, and I to do you +signal service. You are come to seek for the singing-apple: it is guarded +by a terrible dragon." The Dove then led him to a place where he found +a suit of armour, all of glass: and by her advice he put it on, and boldly +went to meet the dragon. The two-headed monster came bounding along, +fire issuing from his throat; but when he saw his alarming figure multiplied +in the Prince's mirrors he was frightened in his turn. He stopped, and +looking fiercely at the Prince, apparently laden with dragons, he took flight +and threw himself into a deep chasm. The Prince then found the tree, which +was surrounded with human bones, and breaking off an apple, prepared to +return to the Princess. She had never slept during his absence, and ran to +meet him eagerly.</p> + +<p>When the wicked Feintise heard the sweet singing of the apple, her grief +was excessive, for instead of doing harm to these lovely children, she only did +them good by her perfidious counsels. She allowed some days to pass by +without showing herself; and then once more made the Princess unhappy by +saying that the dancing-water and the singing-apple were useless without +the little green bird that tells everything.</p> + +<p>Cheri again set out, and after some trouble learnt that this bird was to be +found on the top of a frightful rock, in a frozen climate. At length, at dawn +of day, he perceived the rock, which was very high and very steep, and upon +the summit of it was the bird, speaking like an oracle, telling wonderful +things. He thought that with a little dexterity it would be easy to catch it, +for it seemed very tame. He got off his horse, and climbed up very quietly. +He was so close to the green bird that he thought he could lay hands on it, +when suddenly the rock opened and he fell into a spacious hall, and became as +motionless as a statue; he could neither stir, nor utter a complaint at his +deplorable situation. Three hundred knights, who had made the same attempt, +were in the same state. To look at each other was the only thing permitted +them.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<a href="images/029.jpg"><img src="images/029th.jpg" width="350" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p>The time seemed so long to Belle-Etoile, and still no signs of her beloved +Cheri, that she fell dangerously ill; and in the hopes of curing her, Petit-Soleil +resolved to seek him.</p> + +<p>But he too was swallowed up by the rock and fell into the great hall. The +first person he saw was Cheri, but he could not speak to him; and Prince +Heureux, following soon after, met with the same fate as the other two.</p> + +<p>When Feintise was aware that the third Prince was gone, she was exceedingly +delighted at the success of her plan; and when Belle-Etoile, inconsolable +at finding not one of her brothers return, reproached herself for their loss, +and resolved to follow them, she was quite overjoyed.</p> + +<p>The Princess was disguised as a cavalier, but had no other armour than her +helmet. She was dreadfully cold as she drew near the rock, but seeing a +turtle-dove lying on the snow, she took it up, warmed it, and restored it to +life: and the dove reviving, gaily said, "I know you, in spite of your disguise; +follow my advice: when you arrive at the rock, remain at the bottom and +begin to sing the sweetest song you know; the green bird will listen to you; you +must then pretend to go to sleep; when it sees me, it will come down to peck +me, and at that moment you will be able to seize it."</p> + +<p>All this fell out as the Dove foretold. The green bird begged for liberty. +"First," said Belle-Etoile, "I wish that thou wouldst restore my three +brothers to me."</p> + +<p>"Under my left wing there is a red feather," said the bird: "pull it out, and +touch the rock with it."</p> + +<p>The Princess hastened to do as she was instructed; the rock split from the +top to the bottom: she entered with a victorious air the hall in which stood +the three Princes with many others; she ran towards Cheri, who did not +know her in her helmet and male attire, and could neither speak nor +move. The green bird then told the Princess she must rub the eyes and +mouth of all those she wished to disenchant with the red feather, which good +office she did to all.</p> + +<p>The three Princes and Belle-Etoile hastened to present themselves to the +King; and when Belle-Etoile showed her treasures, the little green bird told +him that the Princes Petit-Soleil and Heureux and the Princess Belle-Etoile +were his children, and that Prince Cheri was his nephew. Queen Blondine, +who had mourned for them all these years, embraced them, and the wicked +Queen-Mother and old Feintise were justly punished. And the King, who +thought his nephew Cheri the handsomest man at Court, consented to his +marriage with Belle-Etoile. And lastly, to make everyone happy, the King +sent for the Corsair and his wife, who gladly came.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 339px;"> +<a href="images/022.jpg"><img src="images/022th.jpg" width="339" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;"> +<img src="images/032th.jpg" width="100" height="104" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="AN_ALPHABET_OF_OLD_FRIENDS" id="AN_ALPHABET_OF_OLD_FRIENDS"></a>AN ALPHABET OF OLD FRIENDS.</h2> + +<div class='padding'> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 322px;"> +<a href="images/033.jpg"><img src="images/033th.jpg" width="322" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div></div> + +<div class="padding"> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 345px;"> +<a href="images/035.jpg"><img src="images/035th.jpg" width="345" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 342px;"> +<a href="images/abcd.jpg"><img src="images/abcd_th.jpg" width="342" height="399" alt="ABCD" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<h3>A</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">A carrion crow sat on an oak,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Watching a tailor shape his cloak.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Wife, bring me my old bent bow,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That I may shoot yon carrion crow."<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The tailor he shot and missed his mark,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And shot his own sow quite through the heart.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Wife, wife, bring brandy in a spoon,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For our old sow is in a swoon."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>B</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Ba, ba, black sheep,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Have you any wool?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Yes, marry, have I,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Three bags full.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">One for my master,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">One for my dame,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But none for the little boy<br /></span> +<span class="i2">That cries in the lane.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>C</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0"><i>Hen.</i> Cock, cock, I have la-a-ayed!<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>Cock.</i> Hen, hen, that's well sa-a-ayed!<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>Hen.</i> Although I have to go bare-footed every day-a-ay!<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>Cock.</i> (<i>Con spirito.</i>) Sell your eggs and buy shoes!<br /></span> +<span class="i8">Sell your eggs and buy shoes!<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>D</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Dickery, dickery, dock,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The mouse ran up the clock.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">The clock struck one,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Down the mouse ran,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Dickery, dickery, dock.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 340px;"> +<a href="images/efgh.jpg"><img src="images/efgh_th.jpg" width="340" height="399" alt="EFGH" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<h3>E</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, and Bess,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They all went together to seek a bird's nest<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They found a bird's nest with five eggs in;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They all took one, and left four in.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>F</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Father, father, I've come to confess.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">O, yes, dear daughter, what have you done?<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>G</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Gang and hear the owl yell,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sit and see the swallow flee,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">See the foal before its mither's e'e,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'Twill be a thriving year wi' thee.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>H</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When the wind blows the cradle will rock;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When the wind ceases the cradle will fall,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And down will come baby and cradle and all.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 368px;"> +<a href="images/ijklm.jpg"><img src="images/ijklm_th.jpg" width="368" height="400" alt="IJKLM" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<h3>I</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I had a little husband<br /></span> +<span class="i2">No bigger than my thumb;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I put him in a pint pot,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And there I bade him drum.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I bought a little horse<br /></span> +<span class="i2">That galloped up and down;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I bridled him, and saddled him,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And sent him out of town.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I gave him a pair of garters,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To tie up his little hose,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And a little silk handkerchief,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To wipe his little nose.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>J</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Jack Sprat would eat no fat,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">His wife would eat no lean;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Was not that a pretty trick<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To make the platter clean?<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>K</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">King Cole was a merry old soul,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And a merry old soul was he.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And he called for his fiddlers three<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Every fiddler had a fiddle,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And a very fine fiddle had he:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Twee, tweedle dee, tweedle dee, went the fiddlers.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Oh, there's none so rare<br /></span> +<span class="i2">As can compare<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With King Cole and his fiddlers three!<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>L</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And can't tell where to find them.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Let them alone and they'll come home,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And bring their tails behind them, &c.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>M</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i2">Mistress Mary,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Quite contrary,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">How does your garden grow?<br /></span> +<span class="i2">With silver bells,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And cockle shells.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And cowslips all of a-row.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 360px;"> +<a href="images/nopqr.jpg"><img src="images/nopqr_th.jpg" width="360" height="399" alt="NOPQR" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<h3>N</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Needles and pins, needles and pins,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When a man marries his trouble begins.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>O</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Once I saw a little bird,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Come hop, hop, hop;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">So I cried, "Little bird,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Will you stop, stop, stop?"<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And was going to the window,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To say, "How do you do?"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When he shook his little tail,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And far away he flew.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>P</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Pease-pudding hot, pease-pudding cold;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Pease-pudding in the pot, nine days old.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>Q</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Queen was in the parlour, eating bread and honey.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>R</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Ride a-cock horse to Banbury Cross,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To see an old woman get up on her horse;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Rings on her fingers and bells at her toes,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And so she makes music wherever she goes.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 346px;"> +<a href="images/stuv.jpg"><img src="images/stuv_th.jpg" width="346" height="399" alt="STUV" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<h3>S</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Simple Simon met a pieman,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Going to the fair;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Says Simple Simon to the pieman,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">"Let me taste your ware!"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>T</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Taffy was a Welshman,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Taffy was a thief,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Taffy came to my house,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And stole a leg of beef.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I went to Taffy's house,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Taffy was not at home;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Taffy came to my house<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And stole a marrow-bone.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I went to Taffy's house,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Taffy was in bed;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I took the marrow-bone,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And broke Taffy's head.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>U</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Up hill and down dale,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Butter is made in every vale;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And if Nancy Cock<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Is a good girl,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">She shall have a spouse.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And make butter anon,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Before her old grandmother<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Grows a young man.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>V</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Valentine, Oh, Valentine,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Curl your locks as I do mine:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Two before and two behind;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Good-morrow to you, Valentine.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 343px;"> +<a href="images/wxyz.jpg"><img src="images/wxyz_th.jpg" width="343" height="399" alt="WXYZ" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<h3>W</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Where are you going, my pretty maid?"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"I'm going a milking, sir," she said.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"May I go with you, my pretty maid?"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"You're kindly welcome, sir," she said.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"What is your father, my pretty maid?"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"My father's a farmer, sir," she said.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Say will you marry me, my pretty maid?"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Yes, if you please, kind sir," she said.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"What is your fortune, my pretty maid?"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"My face is my fortune, sir," she said.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Then, I won't marry you, my pretty maid!"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Nobody asked you, sir," she said.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>X</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i2">Cross X patch,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Draw the latch,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sit by the fire and spin:<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Take a cup<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And drink it up,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Then call the neighbours in.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>Y</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">You know that Monday is Sunday's brother;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Tuesday is such another;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Wednesday you must go to church and pray;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thursday is half-holiday;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">On Friday it is too late to begin to spin,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And Saturday is half-holiday again.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>Z</h3> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Zodiac for the Nursery.</span></p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The ram, the bull, the heavenly twins.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And 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Gutenberg EBook of The Song of Sixpence, by Walter Crane + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Song of Sixpence + Picture Book + +Author: Walter Crane + +Release Date: May 8, 2006 [EBook #18344] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SONG OF SIXPENCE *** + + + + +Produced by Eileen Gormly, Jason Isbell, Christine D. and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + + THE SONG OF SIXPENCE + PICTURE BOOK + + [Illustration: CONTAINING + SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE + PRINCESS BELLE ETOILE + ALPHABET OF OLD FRIENDS] + + + WALTER + CRANE'S + PICTURE + BOOKS + + LONDON & NEW YORK: JOHN LANE + + [Illustration] + [Illustration] + + + + + THE SONG OF SIXPENCE + PICTURE BOOK + + CONTAINING SING A + SONG OF SIXPENCE; PRINCESS + BELLE ETOILE; AN ALPHABET OF + OLD FRIENDS: WITH THE ORIGINAL + COLOURED DESIGNS BY + WALTER CRANE + + INCLUDING A PREFACE AND + OTHER EMBELLISHMENTS + +[Illustration] + + LONDON & NEW YORK JOHN LANE + THE BODLEY HEAD + + + + +PREFACE + + +Whether the Poet undertook to write and SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE for that +popular price is not stated in his simple rhyme, but, at all events, we +learn that he started with "a pocket full," and proceeded to draw on his +imagination for all it was worth. What that famous blackbird-pie really +cost--except in black-birds--is not disclosed, though the King seemed to +show some anxiety about the state of his treasury, as he was discovered +"in his counting house" imediately after the feast. But while the Queen, +regardless of expense, regales herself on "bread and honey" in "the +parlour", and her Maid-of-honour, or perhaps of-all-work, is engaged at +the clothes-line, nothing is said about a princess. + +No doubt there was a princess, and that Princess might have been +PRINCESS BELLE-ETOILE? Anyway here she is in the same boat--I mean +book--and certainly her adventures are romantic enough to prevent any +surprise at the company in which Her Highness now finds herself. + +Even princesses cannot do without Alphabets, and so in her train comes +AN ALPHABET in which will be discovered many OLD and tried FRIENDS of +the Nursery. + +Thus we launch another volume of our series, like a fairy ship with a +rather mixed cargo, in the hope that--to change the metaphor--like the +blackbird-pie, it may prove, when opened, to be "a pretty dish to set +before--" their Babyships. + +Walter Crane + +[Illustration] + +Kensington. Sept: 1909 + +[Illustration] [Illustration] + + + + +SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE + +[Illustrations, with each couplet] + + Sing a song of sixpence, + A pocket full of rye, + + Four and twenty black-birds, + Baked in a pie + + When the pie was open'd + The birds began to sing + + Was'nt that a dainty dish + To set before the King? + + The King was in his counting-house, + Counting out his money. + + The Queen was in the parlour, + Eating bread and honey. + + The maid was in the garden, + Hanging out the clothes; + + There came a little blackbird, + And nipp'd off her nose. + + +[Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] + + + + +PRINCESS BELLE-ETOILE. + + +Once upon a time there were three Princesses, named Roussette, Brunette, +and Blondine, who lived in retirement with their mother, a Princess who +had lost all her former grandeur. One day an old woman called and asked +for a dinner, as this Princess was an excellent cook. After the meal was +over, the old woman, who was a fairy, promised that their kindness +should be rewarded, and immediately disappeared. + +Shortly after, the King came that way, with his brother and the Lord +Admiral. They were all so struck with the beauty of the three +Princesses, that the King married the youngest, Blondine, his brother +married Brunette, and the Lord Admiral married Roussette. + +The good Fairy, who had brought all this about, also caused the young +Queen Blondine to have three lovely children, two boys and a girl, out +of whose hair fell fine jewels. Each had a brilliant star on the +forehead, and a rich chain of gold around the neck. At the same time +Brunette, her sister, gave birth to a handsome boy. Now the young Queen +and Brunette were much attached to each other, but Roussette was jealous +of both, and the old Queen, the King's mother, hated them. Brunette died +soon after the birth of her son, and the King was absent on a warlike +expedition, so Roussette joined the wicked old Queen in forming plans to +injure Blondine. They ordered Feintise, the old Queen's waiting-woman, +to strangle the Queen's three children and the son of Princess Brunette, +and bury them secretly. But as she was about to execute this wicked +order, she was so struck by their beauty, and the appearance of the +sparkling stars on their foreheads, that she shrank from the deed. + +[Illustration] + +So she had a boat brought round to the beach, and put the four babes, +with some strings of jewels, into a cradle, which she placed in the +boat, and then set it adrift. The boat was soon far out at sea. The +waves rose, the rain poured in torrents, and the thunder roared. +Feintise could not doubt that the boat would be swamped, and felt +relieved by the thought that the poor little innocents would perish, for +she would otherwise always be haunted by the fear that something would +occur to betray the share she had had in their preservation. + +But the good Fairy protected them, and after floating at sea for seven +days they were picked up by a Corsair. He was so struck by their beauty +that he altered his course, and took them home to his wife, who had no +children. She was transported with joy when he placed them in her hands. +They admired together the wonderful stars, the chains of gold that could +not be taken off their necks, and their long ringlets. Much greater was +the woman's astonishment when she combed them, for at every instant +there rolled out of their hair pearls, rubies, diamonds, and emeralds. +She told her husband of it, who was not less surprised than herself. + +"I am very tired," said he, "of a Corsair's life, and if the locks of +those little children continue to supply us with such treasures, I will +give up roaming the seas." The Corsair's wife, whose name was Corsine, +was enchanted at this, and loved the four infants so much the more for +it. She named the Princess, Belle-Etoile, her eldest brother, +Petit-Soleil, the second, Heureux, and the son of Brunette, Cheri. + +As they grew older, the Corsair applied himself seriously to their +education, as he felt convinced there was some great mystery attached to +their birth. + +The Corsair and his wife had never told the story of the four children, +who passed for their own. They were exceedingly united, but Prince Cheri +entertained for Princess Belle-Etoile a greater affection than the other +two. The moment she expressed a wish for anything, he would attempt even +impossibilities to gratify her. + +One day Belle-Etoile overheard the Corsair and his wife talking. "When I +fell in with them," said the Corsair, "I saw nothing that could give me +any idea of their birth." "I suspect," said Corsine, "that Cheri is not +their brother, he has neither star nor neck-chain." Belle-Etoile +immediately ran and told this to the three Princes, who resolved to +speak to the Corsair and his wife, and ask them to let them set out to +discover the secret of their birth. After some remonstrance they gained +their consent. A beautiful vessel was prepared, and the young Princess +and the three Princes set out. They determined to sail to the very spot +where the Corsair had found them, and made preparations for a grand +sacrifice to the fairies, for their protection and guidance. They were +about to immolate a turtle-dove, but the Princess saved its life, and +let it fly. At this moment a syren issued from the water, and said, +"Cease your anxiety, let your vessel go where it will; land where it +stops." The vessel now sailed more quickly. Suddenly they came in sight +of a city so beautiful that they were anxious their vessel should enter +the port. Their wishes were accomplished; they landed, and the shore in +a moment was crowded with people, who had observed the magnificence of +their ship. They ran and told the King the news, and as the grand +terrace of the Palace looked out upon the sea-shore, he speedily +repaired thither. The Princes, hearing the people say, "There is the +King," looked up, and made a profound obeisance. He looked earnestly at +them, and was as much charmed by the Princess's beauty, as by the +handsome mien of the young Princes. He ordered his equerry to offer them +his protection, and everything that they might require. + +The King was so interested about these four children, that he went into +the chamber of the Queen, his mother, to tell her of the wonderful stars +which shone upon their foreheads, and everything that he admired in +them. She was thunderstruck at it, and was terribly afraid that Feintise +had betrayed her, and sent her secretary to enquire about them. What he +told her of their ages confirmed her suspicions. She sent for Feintise, +and threatened to kill her. Feintise, half dead with terror, confessed +all; but promised, if she spared her, that she would still find means to +do away with them. The Queen was appeased; and, indeed, old Feintise did +all she could for her own sake. Taking a guitar, she went and sat down +opposite the Princess's window, and sang a song which Belle-Etoile +thought so pretty that she invited her into her chamber. "My fair +child," said Feintise, "Heaven has made you very lovely, but you yet +want one thing--the dancing-water. If I had possessed it, you would not +have seen a white hair upon my head, nor a wrinkle on my face. Alas! I +knew this secret too late; my charms had already faded." "But where +shall I find this dancing-water?" asked Belle-Etoile. "It is in the +luminous forest," said Feintise. "You have three brothers; does not any +one of them love you sufficiently to go and fetch some?" "My brothers +all love me," said the Princess, "but there is one of them who would not +refuse me anything." The perfidious old woman retired, delighted at +having been so successful. The Princes, returning from the chase, found +Belle-Etoile engrossed by the advice of Feintise. Her anxiety about it +was so apparent, that Cheri, who thought of nothing but pleasing her, +soon found out the cause of it, and, in spite of her entreaties, he +mounted his white horse, and set out in search of the dancing-water. +When supper-time arrived, and the Princess did not see her brother +Cheri, she could neither eat nor drink; and desired he might be sought +for everywhere, and sent messengers to find him and bring him back. + +[Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] + +The wicked Feintise was very anxious to know the result of her advice; +and when she heard that Cheri had already set out, she was delighted, +and reported to the Queen-Mother all that had passed. "I admit, Madam," +said she, "that I can no longer doubt that they are the same four +children: but one of the Princes is already gone to seek the +dancing-water, and will no doubt perish in the attempt, and I shall find +similar means to do away with all of them." + +The plan she had adopted with regard to Prince Cheri was one of the most +certain, for the dancing-water was not easily to be obtained; it was so +notorious from the misfortunes which occurred to all who sought it, that +every one knew the road to it. He was eight days without taking any +repose but in the woods. At the end of this period he began to suffer +very much from the heat; but it was not the heat of the sun, and he did +not know the cause of it, until from the top of a mountain he perceived +the luminous forest; all the trees were burning without being consumed, +and casting out flames to such a distance that the country around was a +dry desert. + +At this terrible scene he descended, and more than once gave himself up +for lost. As he approached this great fire he was ready to die with +thirst; and perceiving a spring falling into a marble basin, he alighted +from his horse, approached it, and stooped to take up some water in the +little golden vase which he had brought with him, when he saw a +turtle-dove drowning in the fountain. Cheri took pity on it, and saved +it. "My Lord Cheri," she said, "I am not ungrateful; I can guide you to +the dancing-water, which, without me, you could never obtain, as it +rises in the middle of the forest, and can only be reached by going +underground." The Dove then flew away, and summoned a number of foxes, +badgers, moles, snails, ants, and all sorts of creatures that burrow in +the earth. Cheri got off his horse at the entrance of the subterranean +passage they made for him, and groped his way after the kind Dove, which +safely conducted him to the fountain. The Prince filled his golden vase; +and returned the same way he came. + +He found Belle-Etoile sorrowfully seated under some trees, but when she +saw him she was so pleased that she scarcely knew how to welcome him. + +Old Feintise learned from her spies that Cheri had returned, and that +the Princess, having washed her face with the dancing-water, had become +more lovely than ever. Finding this, she lost no time in artfully making +the Princess sigh for the wonderful singing-apple. Prince Cheri again +found her unhappy, and again found out the cause, and once more set out +on his white horse, leaving a letter for Belle-Etoile. + +In the meanwhile, the King did not forget the lovely children, and +reproached them for never going to the Palace. They excused themselves +by saying that their brother's absence prevented them. + +Prince Cheri at break of day perceived a handsome young man, from whom +he learned where the singing-apple was to be found: but after travelling +some time without seeing any sign of it, he saw a poor turtle-dove fall +at his feet almost dead. He took pity on it, and restored it, when it +said, "Good-day, handsome Cheri, you are destined to save my life, and I +to do you signal service. You are come to seek for the singing-apple: it +is guarded by a terrible dragon." The Dove then led him to a place where +he found a suit of armour, all of glass: and by her advice he put it on, +and boldly went to meet the dragon. The two-headed monster came bounding +along, fire issuing from his throat; but when he saw his alarming figure +multiplied in the Prince's mirrors he was frightened in his turn. He +stopped, and looking fiercely at the Prince, apparently laden with +dragons, he took flight and threw himself into a deep chasm. The Prince +then found the tree, which was surrounded with human bones, and breaking +off an apple, prepared to return to the Princess. She had never slept +during his absence, and ran to meet him eagerly. + +When the wicked Feintise heard the sweet singing of the apple, her grief +was excessive, for instead of doing harm to these lovely children, she +only did them good by her perfidious counsels. She allowed some days to +pass by without showing herself; and then once more made the Princess +unhappy by saying that the dancing-water and the singing-apple were +useless without the little green bird that tells everything. + +Cheri again set out, and after some trouble learnt that this bird was to +be found on the top of a frightful rock, in a frozen climate. At length, +at dawn of day, he perceived the rock, which was very high and very +steep, and upon the summit of it was the bird, speaking like an oracle, +telling wonderful things. He thought that with a little dexterity it +would be easy to catch it, for it seemed very tame. He got off his +horse, and climbed up very quietly. He was so close to the green bird +that he thought he could lay hands on it, when suddenly the rock opened +and he fell into a spacious hall, and became as motionless as a statue; +he could neither stir, nor utter a complaint at his deplorable +situation. Three hundred knights, who had made the same attempt, were in +the same state. To look at each other was the only thing permitted them. + +[Illustration] + +The time seemed so long to Belle-Etoile, and still no signs of her +beloved Cheri, that she fell dangerously ill; and in the hopes of +curing her, Petit-Soleil resolved to seek him. + +But he too was swallowed up by the rock and fell into the great hall. +The first person he saw was Cheri, but he could not speak to him; and +Prince Heureux, following soon after, met with the same fate as the +other two. + +When Feintise was aware that the third Prince was gone, she was +exceedingly delighted at the success of her plan; and when Belle-Etoile, +inconsolable at finding not one of her brothers return, reproached +herself for their loss, and resolved to follow them, she was quite +overjoyed. + +The Princess was disguised as a cavalier, but had no other armour than +her helmet. She was dreadfully cold as she drew near the rock, but +seeing a turtle-dove lying on the snow, she took it up, warmed it, and +restored it to life: and the dove reviving, gaily said, "I know you, in +spite of your disguise; follow my advice: when you arrive at the rock, +remain at the bottom and begin to sing the sweetest song you know; the +green bird will listen to you; you must then pretend to go to sleep; +when it sees me, it will come down to peck me, and at that moment you +will be able to seize it." + +All this fell out as the Dove foretold. The green bird begged for +liberty. "First," said Belle-Etoile, "I wish that thou wouldst restore +my three brothers to me." + +"Under my left wing there is a red feather," said the bird: "pull it +out, and touch the rock with it." + +The Princess hastened to do as she was instructed; the rock split from +the top to the bottom: she entered with a victorious air the hall in +which stood the three Princes with many others; she ran towards Cheri, +who did not know her in her helmet and male attire, and could neither +speak nor move. The green bird then told the Princess she must rub the +eyes and mouth of all those she wished to disenchant with the red +feather, which good office she did to all. + +The three Princes and Belle-Etoile hastened to present themselves to the +King; and when Belle-Etoile showed her treasures, the little green bird +told him that the Princes Petit-Soleil and Heureux and the Princess +Belle-Etoile were his children, and that Prince Cheri was his nephew. +Queen Blondine, who had mourned for them all these years, embraced them, +and the wicked Queen-Mother and old Feintise were justly punished. And +the King, who thought his nephew Cheri the handsomest man at Court, +consented to his marriage with Belle-Etoile. And lastly, to make +everyone happy, the King sent for the Corsair and his wife, who gladly +came. + +[Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] + + + + +AN ALPHABET OF OLD FRIENDS. + + +A + + A carrion crow sat on an oak, + Watching a tailor shape his cloak. + "Wife, bring me my old bent bow, + That I may shoot yon carrion crow." + The tailor he shot and missed his mark, + And shot his own sow quite through the heart. + "Wife, wife, bring brandy in a spoon, + For our old sow is in a swoon." + +B + + Ba, ba, black sheep, + Have you any wool? + Yes, marry, have I, + Three bags full. + + One for my master, + One for my dame, + But none for the little boy + That cries in the lane. + +C + + _Hen._ Cock, cock, I have la-a-ayed! + _Cock._ Hen, hen, that's well sa-a-ayed! + _Hen._ Although I have to go bare-footed every day-a-ay! + _Cock._ (_Con spirito._) Sell your eggs and buy shoes! + Sell your eggs and buy shoes! + +D + + Dickery, dickery, dock, + The mouse ran up the clock. + The clock struck one, + Down the mouse ran, + Dickery, dickery, dock. + +[Illustration: ABCD] + +[Illustration: EFGH] + +E + + Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, and Bess, + They all went together to seek a bird's nest + They found a bird's nest with five eggs in; + They all took one, and left four in. + +F + + Father, father, I've come to confess. + O, yes, dear daughter, what have you done? + +G + + Gang and hear the owl yell, + Sit and see the swallow flee, + See the foal before its mither's e'e, + 'Twill be a thriving year wi' thee. + +H + + Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top; + When the wind blows the cradle will rock; + When the wind ceases the cradle will fall, + And down will come baby and cradle and all. + +I + + I had a little husband + No bigger than my thumb; + I put him in a pint pot, + And there I bade him drum. + I bought a little horse + That galloped up and down; + I bridled him, and saddled him, + And sent him out of town. + I gave him a pair of garters, + To tie up his little hose, + And a little silk handkerchief, + To wipe his little nose. + +J + + Jack Sprat would eat no fat, + His wife would eat no lean; + Was not that a pretty trick + To make the platter clean? + +K + + King Cole was a merry old soul, + And a merry old soul was he. + He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, + And he called for his fiddlers three + Every fiddler had a fiddle, + And a very fine fiddle had he: + Twee, tweedle dee, tweedle dee, went the fiddlers. + Oh, there's none so rare + As can compare + With King Cole and his fiddlers three! + +L + + Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep, + And can't tell where to find them. + Let them alone and they'll come home, + And bring their tails behind them, &c. + +M + + Mistress Mary, + Quite contrary, + How does your garden grow? + With silver bells, + And cockle shells. + And cowslips all of a-row. + +N + + Needles and pins, needles and pins, + When a man marries his trouble begins. + +[Illustration: IJKLM] + +[Illustration: NOPQR] + +O + + Once I saw a little bird, + Come hop, hop, hop; + So I cried, "Little bird, + Will you stop, stop, stop?" + + And was going to the window, + To say, "How do you do?" + When he shook his little tail, + And far away he flew. + +P + + Pease-pudding hot, pease-pudding cold; + Pease-pudding in the pot, nine days old. + +Q + + Queen was in the parlour, eating bread and honey. + +R + + Ride a-cock horse to Banbury Cross, + To see an old woman get up on her horse; + Rings on her fingers and bells at her toes, + And so she makes music wherever she goes. + +S + + Simple Simon met a pieman, + Going to the fair; + Says Simple Simon to the pieman, + "Let me taste your ware!" + +T + + Taffy was a Welshman, + Taffy was a thief, + Taffy came to my house, + And stole a leg of beef. + + I went to Taffy's house, + Taffy was not at home; + Taffy came to my house + And stole a marrow-bone. + + I went to Taffy's house, + Taffy was in bed; + I took the marrow-bone, + And broke Taffy's head. + +U + + Up hill and down dale, + Butter is made in every vale; + And if Nancy Cock + Is a good girl, + She shall have a spouse. + And make butter anon, + Before her old grandmother + Grows a young man. + +V + + Valentine, Oh, Valentine, + Curl your locks as I do mine: + Two before and two behind; + Good-morrow to you, Valentine. + +W + + "Where are you going, my pretty maid?" + "I'm going a milking, sir," she said. + "May I go with you, my pretty maid?" + "You're kindly welcome, sir," she said. + "What is your father, my pretty maid?" + "My father's a farmer, sir," she said. + "Say will you marry me, my pretty maid?" + "Yes, if you please, kind sir," she said. + "What is your fortune, my pretty maid?" + "My face is my fortune, sir," she said. + "Then, I won't marry you, my pretty maid!" + "Nobody asked you, sir," she said. + +[Illustration: STUV] + +[Illustration: WXYZ] + +X + + Cross X patch, + Draw the latch, + Sit by the fire and spin: + Take a cup + And drink it up, + Then call the neighbours in. + +Y + + You know that Monday is Sunday's brother; + Tuesday is such another; + Wednesday you must go to church and pray; + Thursday is half-holiday; + On Friday it is too late to begin to spin, + And Saturday is half-holiday again. + +Z + +ZODIAC FOR THE NURSERY. + + The ram, the bull, the heavenly twins. + And next the crab, the lion shines, + The virgin and the scales, + The scorpion, archer, and the goat, + The man who holds the watering-pot, + And fish with glittering scales. + +[Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] +[Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] + + + +WALTER CRANE'S PICTURE BOOKS + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Song of Sixpence, by Walter Crane + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SONG OF SIXPENCE *** + +***** This file should be named 18344.txt or 18344.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/4/18344/ + +Produced by Eileen Gormly, Jason Isbell, Christine D. and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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