~Ralph Caldecott

Images from an antiquarian children's book:
'The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book
by R. Caldecott'
published in London by
Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd.
the same company that published
all of the Beatrix Potter books.
,.  .. Bye, Baby Bunting!
. Father's gone a-hunting.
Gone to fetch a rabbit-skin
.To wrap the Baby Bunting in.
.

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Illustrations by Ralph Caldecott
(1846-86),
~ LINK ~
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   The King was in his Counting-house,
Counting out his Money.
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The Queen was in the Parlour,
Eating Bread and Honey.
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The Maid was in the Garden,
Hanging out the Clothes;
There came a little Blackbird,
And snapped off her Nose.
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But there came a Jenny Wren
And popped it on again.
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