PETER PATTER _told them to me, All the little rimes, Whispered them among the bushes Half a hundred times.
Peter lives upon a mountain Pretty near the sun, Knows the bears and birds and rabbits Nearly every one; Has a home among the alders, Bed of cedar bark, Walks alone beneath the pine trees Even when it's dark.
Squirrels tell him everything That happens in the trees, Cricket in the gander-grass Sings of all he sees; Rimes from bats and butterflies, Crabs and waterfowl; But the best of all he gets From his Uncle Owl.
Sometimes when its day-time, But mostly in the night, They sit beneath an oak tree And hug each other tight, And tell their rimes and riddles Where the catty creatures prowl-- Funny little Peter Patter And his Uncle Owl._
LIST OF THE RHYMES
A Copper Down a Crack 9
I'm Much Too Big for a Fairy 9
Did You Ever Play Tag with a Tiger? 9
The Blue Song 10
Hippity Hop to Bed 10
Away to the River 11
Our Little Pat 12
The Animal Show 12
Tommy Trimble 12
Dickie, Dickie Dexter 14
On the Road to Tattletown 14
Polly and Peter 14
I Went to Town on Monday 15
Where Are You Going? 16
Christopher Crump 17
Pinky, Pinky, Pang 18
Tick, Tock 18
Under the Willow 20
High on the Mantel 20
Boots, Boots, Boots 21
Butterfly 22
Beela By the Sea 22
A Matter of Taste 23
Tommy, My Son 23
Oh, Said the Worm 23
Buzzy Brown 24
The Wind 24
The Hobo Band 24
A Beetle on a Broomstraw 26
Mule Thoughts 26
A Candle, a Candle 27
Baxter 28
Loddy, Gin, and Ella Zander 28
As I Was Going Down the Hill 28
A Little Boy Ran to the End of the Sky 30
Discretion 31
A Beetle Once Sat on a Barberry Twig 31
The Thieves 32
Upon The Irish Sea 32
Duckle, Daisy 32
I've Got a New Book 34
The Carrot and the Rabbit 35
Hippy-Hi-Hoppy 35
Up on the Garden Gate 37
'Most Any Chip 37
A Moon Song 37
What Makes You Laugh? 38
Timmy O'Toole 38
A Man Came From Malden 39
Baron Batteroff 39
Six Little Salmon 39
To Carry on the Toot-Toot 40
Doubbledoon 40
The Party 42
I've Got a Yellow Puppy 43
Doctor McSwattle 45
Columbus 45
Terrible Tim 46
What's the Use? 46
All Aboard for Bombay 47
Water 47
Old Molly is Lowing 48
Snowflakes 48
Dippy-Dippy-Davy 48
When I'm as Rich as Uncle Claus 50
Rinky-Tattle 50
Twenty Little Snowflakes 51
Slippery Slim 51
The Freighter 53
No One at Home 53
Patters and Tatters 53
Crown the King with Carrot Tops 54
The Canada Goose 54
Hipperty, Clickerty, Clackerty, Bang 55
Sonny 56
The Stove 56
The Thunder Baby 58
Hinky, Pinky, Pearly Earl 59
Tipsy Tom 60
Jolly Jinks 60
Transformation 60
The Thief Chase 62
Somebody 62
Consolation 63
The Robin and the Squirrel 63
The King Had a Platter 63
Rain 64
Old Father McNether 64
Jerry Was a Joker 64
King Kokem 66
Old Missus Skinner 67
