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Title: Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories
A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
Author: Robert Ford
Release Date: January 13, 2008 [eBook #24271]
Language: English
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Children's Rhymes
Children's Games
Children's Songs
Children's Stories
A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
By ROBERT FORD
Author of "Thistledown," and Editor of "Ballads of Bairnhood," "Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland"
Etc., etc.
"Auld rhymes and auld chimes
Gar us think on auld times"
—Proverb
PAISLEY: ALEXANDER GARDNER
Publisher to the late Queen Victoria: 1904
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SECOND EDITION
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PREFACE.
In offering to the public this collection of Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, and
Children's Storiesthe multitudinous items of which, or such, at least, as were not living in my own memory,
have been gathered with patient industry, albeit with much genuine delight, from wide and varied sourcesI
anticipate for the work a hearty and general welcome, alike from old and young. It is the first really sincere
effort to collect in anything like ample and exclusive fashion the natural literature of the children of Scotland,
and meets what has long appealed to me as decidedly a felt want. The earlier pages are occupied with a
commentary, textually illustrated, on the generally puerile, but regularly fascinating Rhymes of the Nursery,
Children's Rhymes Children's Games Children's Songs Children's Stories
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