作者：勒罗伊·F.杰克逊 著,（美）布兰琪·F.莱特 插图
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01 A COPPER DOWN A CRACK
Jingle, jingle, Jack,
A copper down a crack.
Twenty men and all their wives,
With sticks and picks and pocket knives,
Digging for their very lives
To get the copper back.
[NOTES] This rhyme is about money that falls between the wood on a walk way. 40 people try to help get the money. 20 men try and the 20 girls the men are married to also try. They use different things to try to pick it up.
jingle — the sound money makes in a pocket
jack — name of the boy who dropped the money
copper — money. one copper = one cent (1¢)
crack — very small space
wives — married girls (more than one)
sticks — part of a tree
pick — tool with sharp metal on one end
pocket knives — more than one small knife
digging — making a hole in the earthJINGLE, JINGLE, JACK, A COPPER DOWN A CRACK
02 I’M MUCH TOO BIG FOR A FAIRY
I’m much too big for a fairy,
And much too small for a man,
But this is true:
Whatever I do,
I do it the best I can.
[NOTES] This rhyme is about a dwarf: a person whose body does not grow big. He is short, but he tries to do everything as good as he can.
I’m — I am
fairy—verysmall(notreal)personwithwings,whocanfly
true — 100% real
03 DID YOU EVER PLAY TAG WITH A TIGER?
Did you ever play tag with a tiger,
Or ever play boo with a bear;
Did you ever put rats in the rain-barrel
To give poor old Granny a scare?
It’s fun to play tag with a tiger,
It’s fun for the bear to say “boo”,
But if rats are found in the rain-barrel
Old Granny will put you in too.
[NOTES] This rhyme is for fun. It makes a child laugh. The rhyme asks if the child has played with animals. It asks if the child has done something to frighten Grandmother.
tag — a game. One child runs and tries to touch (tag) another child
tiger — large, wild, orange cat with black stripes
boo — the word children shout when they come out from hiding
bear — same animal as a panda
rat — big mouse
rain-barrel — big wood pot used to hold the rain
to scare — to frighten
04 THE BLUE SONG
Hot mush and molasses all in a blue bowl —
Eat it, it’s good for you, sonny.
’T will make you grow tall as a telephone pole —
Eat it, it’s good for you, sonny.
Fresh fish and potatoes all on a blue plate —
Eat it up smart now, my sonny.
’T will make you as jolly and fat as Aunt Kate —
Eat it up quick now, my sonny.
Sweet milk from a nanny-goat in a blue cup —
Drink it, it’s good for you, sonny,
’T will fill you, expand you, and help you grow up,
And make a real man of you, sonny.
[NOTES] This rhyme is said to a boy to make him eat his food and drink his milk. Father tells the boy in this rhyme to eat corn with milk called mush. Father has added the water from sugar cane called molasses into the mush. People thought this food made children grow and when they ate it they would be healthy so father says it is good for the boy.
Father tells the boy to eat fish and potatoes so he will be smart. Father says when the boy eats this food he will be happy and he will get fat like his aunt.Father tells the boy to drink his milk. Father says the milk will make the boy big so one day he will be a man.
mush — cornmeal
molasses — sugar from sugar cane
sonny — little son (boy child)
’twill – it will
telephone pole — the long wood that holds the electrical lines
jolly — happy
aunt — father’s sister
nanny-goat — mother goat
expand — make big
grow — get bigger
05 HIPPITY HOP TO BED
O it’s hippity hop to bed!
I’d rather sit up instead.
But when father says “must”,
There’s nothing but just
Go hippity hop to bed.
[NOTES] This rhyme is said to a child to make the child go to bed. The child moves to the bed with a little run and jump called a hippity hop. The child does not want to go to bed, but when father says it is bed time, the child can do nothing but run and jump to bed.
hippity hop — a run and jump
I’d — I would
sit up — do not go to sleep
must — cannot say no
just — only
06 AWAY TO THE RIVER
Away to the river, away to the wood,
While the grasses are green and the berries are good!
Where the locusts are scraping their fiddles and bows,
And the bees keep a-coming wherever one goes.
Oh, it’s off to the river and off to the hills,
To the land of the bloodroot and wild daffodils,
With a buttercup blossom to color my chin,
And a basket of burs to put sandberries in.
[NOTES] This rhyme is about what children do when they play outside in the country. In the summer, children go to the water and they go to the woods where all the trees are. The grass is green and the fruit is good to eat. There are insects called locusts that make a sound with their wings and their legs. Some people say these locusts sound like a violin or fiddle being played with a bow. In the summer there are many bees. There are places to go play such as the river and the hills. There are many flowers. Children pick buttercups and hold the flower, like a mirror, under their chins. Children say if they can see the yellow color under their chin, it means they love butter. In the autumn children bring home berries.
away — go
river — water that runs in a line
wood — place with many trees
berries, sandberries — fruit
locusts — insects
scraping — making a noise
fiddlesandbows—violinandthestickitisplayedwith
bloodroot,daffodils,buttercup—flowers
blossom—flower
basket of burs — bowl to put fruit in to take home
07 OUR LITTLE PAT
Our little Pat
Was chasing the cat
And kicking the kittens about.
When mother said “Quit!”
He ran off to sit
On the top of the woodpile and pout;
But a sly little grin
Soon slid down his chin
And let all the sulkiness out.
[NOTES] This rhyme is about the bad things boys do. This boy is named Pat and he runs after the cat. He hurts the baby cats. Mother tells the boy to stop. He runs away from mother.Pat sits on some wood and feels unhappy. Soon he has another bad idea. This makes him smile and Pat feels happy when he thinks of how he can next be bad.
chasing — running
kicking — hitting with the foot
kittens — baby cats
quit — stop
to pout — to feel unhappy and stick the lower lip out sly — clever
grin — small smile
slid — past tense of slide, go down
sulkiness — to be in a bad mood and not talk to anyone
08 THE ANIMAL SHOW
Father and mother and Bobbie will go
To see all the sights at the animal show.
Where lions and bears
Sit on dining room chairs,
Where a camel is able
To stand on a table,
Where monkeys and seals
All travel on wheels,
And a Zulu baboon
Rides a baby balloon.
The sooner you’re ready, the sooner we’ll go.
Aboard, all aboard, for the Animal Show!
[NOTES] This rhyme helps children learn the names of animals. It is funny and makes the child laugh. This rhyme is told to Bobbie, but any child’s name can be used. For example,Father and Mother and Meiling will go to an animal show.
sights — interesting things to see
dining room — place where all the family eats dinner
able — can
travel — go
baboon — very big monkeyTHE ANIMAL SHOW
09 TOMMY TRIMBLE
Billy be nimble,
Hurry and see
Old Tommy Trimble
Climbing a tree.
He claws with his fingers
And digs with his toes.
The longer he lingers
The slower he goes.
[NOTES] This rhyme is telling a boy named Billy to come see an old man named Tommy Trimble who is going up a tree.nimble — quick and smart
claws—usesthenailsonhisfingerstoholdontothetree
digs — uses the nails on his toes to hold on to the tree
to linger — to stay or to wait
10 DICKIE, DICKIE DEXTER
Dickie, Dickie Dexter
Had a wife and vexed her.
She put him in a rabbit cage
And fed him peppermint and sage —
Dickie, Dickie Dexter.
[NOTES] This rhyme is funny. It makes children laugh. In English when someone does something wrong, we say they are in the dog house. We tell them to leave the house and go sleep with the dogs. Then they know they are bad. In this rhyme Dickie’s wife makes him sleep with the rabbits. He is bad.
dickie dexter — name of the husband
to vex — to make angry
peppermint and sage — herbs to eat
11 ON THE ROAD TO TATTLETOWN
On the road to Tattletown
What is this I see?
A pig upon a pedestal,
A cabbage up a tree,
A rabbit cutting capers
With a twenty dollar bill —
Now if I don’t get to Tattletown
Then no one ever will.
[NOTES] This rhyme is funny. It makes children laugh.Children love to hear about strange things like a pig on a pole called a pedestal. It makes them laugh to think of a cabbage in a tree or a rabbit cutting small flowers called capers with money.
tattletown — name of the town
pedestal—flatpoletositon
capers—babyclosedflowersinpicklewater
twenty dollar bill — paper money ($20)
12 POLLY AND PETER
Polly had some china cows
And Peter had a gun.
She turned the bossies out to browse,And Peterkin, for fun,
Just peppered them with butter beans
And blew them all to smithereens.
* * *
Now what will pretty Polly do
For milk and cream and butter too?
[NOTES] This rhyme is about the bad things boys do. Polly is playing with her toy cows that are made from china. Peter is playing with this toy gun. When Polly puts the toy cows outside, Peter shoots them with beans from his toy gun. The glass cows break. Now Polly cannot play that the cows give her milk and cream and butter.
china — hard, white glass
bossies — cows
browse — eat a little
to pepper — to shoot
butter beans — small round food
to blow — to shoot
smithereens — completely broken in thousands of pieces
13 I WENT TO TOWN ON MONDAY
I went to town on Monday
To buy myself a coat,
But on the way I met a man
Who traveled with a caravan,
And bought a billy-goat.
I went to town on Tuesday
And bought a fancy vest.
I kept the pretty bucklestraps,
Buttonholes and pocketflaps,
And threw away the rest.
I went to town on Thursday
To buy a loaf of bread,
But when I got there, goodness sakes!
The town was full of rattlesnakes —
The bakers all were dead.
I went to town on Saturday
To get myself a wife,
But when I saw the lady fair
I gnashed my teeth and pulled my hair
And scampered for my life.
[NOTES] This rhyme helps children learn the days of the week. This man goes to town four days to buy things, but he does not have any luck. On Monday, he does not get to the town. He buys a goat on the road to town. On Tuesday he buys clothes just to cut off the buttons and such. On Thursday he gets to town, but finds it full of snakes that have killed all the bakers. On Saturday he goes to town to get a wife, but he thinks she is not beautiful and so he runs away.
ca ravan — group of people living together in small houses that travel on wheels
fancy — very beautiful
buckle-straps — metal that keeps clothes closed
pocketflaps—thecoversforpockets
goodness sakes — idiom that means oh dear or oh no
rattlesnakes — snakes that make a sound with their tails
to gnash — to bite hard many times
scampered — run
for my life — frightened I might die
14 WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
Where are you going, sister Kate?
I’m going to swing on the garden gate,
And watch the fairy gypsies dance
Their tim-tam-tum on the cabbage-plants —
The great big one with the purple nose,
And the tiny tad with the pinky toes.
Where are you going, brother Ben?
I’m going to build a tiger-pen.
I’ll get iron and steel and ’lectric wire
And build it a hundred feet, or higher,
And put ten tigers in it too,
And a big wildcat, and —— mebbe —— you.
Where are you going, mother mine?
I’m going to sit by the old grapevine,
And watch the gliding swallow bring
Clay for her nest from the meadow spring —
Clay and straw and a bit of thread
To weave it into a baby’s bed.
Where are you going, grandma dear?
I’m going, love, where the skies are clear,
And the light winds lift the poppy flowers,
And gather clouds for the summer showers,
Where the old folks and the children play
On the warm hillside through the livelong day.
[NOTES] This rhyme is about the things people do because of they are a girl or boy or because they are young or old.Girls like to think about fairies and boys like to think about building things and wild animals. Mothers like to be quiet and
watch birds take care of their babies. Grandmother is thinking of heaven. She talks about where she will go when she dies.
to swing — to move back and forward
gate — door to the garden
fairy—verysmall(notreal)personwithwings,whocanfly
gypsies — people who travel and have no home
tim-tam-tum — sound they make with their feet when they dance
cabbage plant — food like lettuce
tad — little one
pinky — colour pink
pen — house for animals
’lectric — electric
mebbe — maybe
mother mine — my mother
gliding—flying
swallow — bird
clay — dirt mixed with water
straw — dead grass
thread — cotton
to weave — to sew
15 CHRISTOPHER CRUMP
Christopher Crump,
All in a lump,
Sits like a toad on the top of a stump.
He stretches and sighs,
And blinks with his eyes,
Bats at the beetles and fights off the flies.
[NOTES] This rhyme is about a boy called Christopher Crump. He is fat and lazy. He does nothing, but sit all day.When he sits, he tries to keep the insects off his body.
lump — big, fat pile
toad — large frog
stump — the wood that is there after a tree is cut down
to stretch — to make the body long
to sigh — to let out air from the body with a sound
to blink — close and open both eyes very fast
to bat — to hit
beetlesandflies—insects
16 PINKY, PINKY, PANG
A tortoise sat on a slippery limb
And played his pinky pang
For a dog-fish friend that called on him,
And this is what he sang:
“Oh, the skies are blue,
And I wait for you
To come where the willows hang,
And dance all night
By the white moonlight
To my pinky, pinky, pang!”
[NOTES] This rhyme is about a turtle who has a fish friend.The turtle sings to the fish using a guitar that he calls his pinky, pinky pang. He tells the fish he wants her to come dance to his music at night when the moon is in the sky.
tortoise — turtle
slippery — wet
limb — arm of a tree
willows — trees
to hang — this tree grows over the turtle’s head
17 TICK, TOCK
Tick, tock! Tick, tock!
Forty ’leven by the clock.
Tick, tock! Tick, tock!
Put your ear to Grandpa’s ticker,Like a pancake, only thicker.
Tick, tock! Tick, tock!
Catch a squirrel in half a minute,
Grab a sack and stick him in it.
Tick, tock! Tick, tock!
Mister Bunny feeds on honey,
Tea, and taters — ain’t it funny?
Tick, tock! Tick, tock!
When he goes to bed at night,
Shoves his slippers out of sight;
That is why Old Fox, the sinner,
Had to go without his dinner.
Tick, tock! Tick, tock!
So says Grandpa’s clock.
[NOTES] This rhyme is about the sound a clock makes.The child is learning time and says forty ’leven which is 40 minutes after 11 o’clock. She listens to her grandfather’s time piece and says she can get a squirrel in 30 seconds, which is half a minute. The rhyme does not tell a story. A fox does not wear slippers and is not a sinner. The words rhyme and that is why they are put together. They sound good to children.
tick, tock — the sound a time piece (clock or watch) makes
forty ’leven — forty minutes past eleven o’clock
ticker — watch or clock
pancake—friedflatbread
thicker — fatter
sack — cotton bag
to stick — to put
taters — potatoes
to shove — to push
slippers — night shoes for inside the house
sinner — person who has done something badTICK, TOCK! TICK, TOCK! FORTY ’LEVEN BY THE CLOCK
18 UNDER THE WILLOW
Put down your pillow under the willow,
Hang up your hat in the sun,
And lie down to snooze as long as you choose,
For the plowing and sowing are done.
Pick up your pillow from under the willow,
And clamber out into the sun.
Get a fork and a rake for goodness’ sake,
For the harvest time has begun.
[NOTES] This rhyme is about farming. In the spring, the farmer makes the field ready for the seed and then he puts the seeds in the ground. After, he can rest while the seeds grow. Later, the farmer must stop resting and get the food from the field.
pillow — feathers inside cotton
willow — tree
to hang — to hold up
to snooze — to sleep a lightly
as long as you choose — as long as you want
to plow — to make lines in the ground to put seeds into
to sow — put seeds in the ground
to clamber — to move on hands and knees
fork and rake — tools used by farmers
19 HIGH ON THE MANTEL
High on the mantel rose a moan —
It came from an idol carved in bone —
“Oh, it’s so lonesome here alone,
With no one near to love me!”
A cautious smile came over the face
Of a pensive maid on a Grecian vase
“Are you sure,” she said, with charming grace,“There’s no one near to love you?”
[NOTES] This rhyme is about two things that are sitting on wood above the fireplace in a house. The bone man says he is lonely and has no one to love him. The Greek girl that is painted on the vase suggests that she might love him.
mantel—woodshelfovertopofafireplace
rose — past tense of rise, go up
moan — unhappy sound
idol — something that looks like a person
carved — made with a knife
lonesome — lonely
cautious — careful
pensive — thoughtful
maid — girl
grecianvase—holderforflowerspaintedwithGreekpictures
charming — nice
grace — respectful and lovely
20 BOOTS, BOOTS, BOOTS
Buster’s got a popper gun,
A reg’lar one that shoots,
And Teddy’s got an engine
With a whistler that toots.
But I’ve got something finer yet —
A pair of rubber boots.
Oh, it’s boots, boots, boots,
A pair of rubber boots!
I could walk from here to China
In a pair of rubber boots.
[NOTES] This rhyme is about the toys that boys have. Every child wants to be number one. In other words, they want to be the best. Children will say their toy is better than other toys so they can be the best. Buster thinks his gun is best. Teddy thinks his train engine is best. The boy in the rhyme has not got a toy so he says that his boots are better than any toy. He says they are best because he can walk to China in them.
popper gun — toy gun
reg’lar — regular
engine — front of a train
wh istler — someone who makes a sound with air between their teeth
toots — sound that the train makes
f
iner—better
21 BUTTERFLY
Butterfly, butterfly,
Sit on my chin,
Your wings are like tinsel,
So yellow and thin.
Butterfly, butterfly,
Give me a kiss;
If you give me a dozen
There’s nothing amiss.
Butterfly, butterfly,
Off to the flowers, —
Wee, soulless sprite
Of the long summer hours.
[NOTES] This rhyme is said when a child sees a butterfly.The child calls the butterfly to come close and sit on her.
chin — part of the face below the mouth
tinsel — silver pieces put on a christmas tree
amiss — wrong
wee — little
soulless — without a spirit
sprite — fairy
22 BEELA BY THE SEA
Catch a floater, catch an eel,
Catch a lazy whale,
Catch an oyster by the heel
And put him in a pail.
There’s lots of work for Uncle Ike,
Fatty Ford and me
All day long and half the night
At Beela by the sea.
[NOTES] This rhyme is about the fishermen who live at Beela. It is about what the fishermen take out of the sea when they fish all day and into the night.
tocatchfish—togetonafishline
floater—fish
eel—longsnakelikefish
lazy — not moving much
whale—huge,hugefish
oyster — a sea being that lives inside a shell
heel — round back part of a foot
pail — plastic bucket that holds water
23 A MATTER OF TASTE
“Thank you, dear,” said the big black ant,
“I’d like to go home with you now, but I can’t.
I have to hurry and milk my cows —
The aphid herds on the aster boughs.”
And the ladybug said: “No doubt it’s fine,
This milk you get from your curious kine,
But you know quite well it’s my belief
Your cows are best when turned to beef.”
[NOTES] This rhyme is about two insects that are talking: an ant and a ladybug. The ladybug has asked the ant to come to her home, but the ant says she cannot. She is busy with her flies called aphids. Ants eat the milk that aphids make so the ant says her aphids are just like cows. Aphids live on aster flowers.The ladybug says that maybe the milk from the cows is good,but she thinks it would be better to eat the cows for their meat.
aphids—verysmallflies
herds — many animals living together
boughs — arms of a tree
kine — very old word for cows. not used today
my belief — what I think
24 TOMMY, MY SON
“Tommy, my son,” said the old tabby cat,
“Go catch us some mice, and be sure that they’re fat.
There’s one family lives in the carpenter’s barn;
They’ve made them a nest of the old lady’s yarn.
But the carpenter has a young cat of his own
That is healthy and proud and almost full grown,
And consider it, son, an eternal disgrace
To come home at night with a scratch on your face.”
[NOTES] This rhyme is about a mother cat who tells her son,Tommy to go get some mice to eat. Mother cats says there is a family of mice living in one of the animal houses that is owned by the carpenter. This mouse family has made a home in some wool. Sometimes cats fight. Mother tells her son to watch for the carpenter’s cat who is now old enough to fight with any cat that comes into his barn. Mother says if Tommy comes home with a scratch on his face, it will be because the young cat has won the fight.
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