Nonsense Books Book

EDWARD LEAR. ENGRAVED BY ANDREW FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN SAN RHMO, BV Nonsense Books BY EDWARD LEAR WITH ALL THE ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS There was an Old Berry down Derry , who loved to see little folks merry So lie made them a Book, and with laughter they shook At the fun of that Berry down Berry, BOSTON LITTLE. BROWN AND COMPANY Copyright, U88 t BY ROBERTS BROTHERS. Twenty-sixth Printing WUNTED IK THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ngftral Befcication. TO THE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, GRAND-NEPHEWS, AND GRAND-NIECES OF EDWARD, I3TH EARL OF DERBY, THIS BOOK OF DRAWINGS AND VERSES - wert originally made and composed for their Is ffiefttatcft i tfje Stutfjor, EDWARD LEAR. London, 1862. PUBLISHERS PREFACE EDWARD LEAR died nearly thirty years ago but his Nonsense Books live on. Children of the present day find as much amusement in his verses and pictures as did the rising generations of his time. Lear and Lewis Carroll are the great classical authors of nonsense, and Nonsense Books and Alice in Wonderland may be expected to excite merry laughter amongst children for many years to come. The first Book of Nonsense was published in 1846. Three other volumes, Nonsense Songs, Stories, pub lished in 1871 More Nonsense Pictures, etc., in 1872 and Laughable Lyrics A Fresh Book of Nonsense, etc., in 1877, comprise all the Nonsense Books written by Edward Lear. All the original pictures and verses are included in the present volume. July, 1917. CONTENTS PACK LEARS INTRODUCTION TO MORE NONSENSE SONGS AND STORIES xi A BOOK OF NONSENSE r NONSENSE SONGS AND STORIES The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 67 The Duck and the Kangaroo ...... 70 The Daddy Long-Legs and the Fly ..... 74 The Jumblies ......... 78 The Nutcrackers and the Sugar-Tongs .... 82 Calico-Pie 85 Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow 88 The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker, and the Tongs . . 92 The Table and the Chair 95 The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Around the World 98 The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple 1 15 NONSENSE COOKERY . . . 133 NONSENSE BOTANY 139 NONSENSE ALPHABETS A was an ant 175 A was once an apple-pie . . . . .197 A was an ape . . . . . - 2I 9 ONE HUNDRED NONSENSE PICTURES AND RHYMES . . . 243 TWENTY-SIX NONSENSE RHYMES AND PICTURES . . . 301 LAUGHABLE LYRICS The Dong with a Luminous Nose 329 The Two Old Bachelors 334 CONTENTS. The Pelican Chorus 337 The Courtship of the Yonghy Bonghy-B6 .... 342 The Pobble Who Has No Toes 348 The New Vestments . . . . . . . . 351 Mr. and Mrs. Discobbolos ....... 353 The Quangle-Wangles Hat - 355 The Cummerbund, an Indian Poem . 358 The Akond of Swat 3 NONSENSE ALPHABETS A was an Area Arch ........ 365 A tumbled down ..... 39 How PLEASANT TO KNOW MR. LEAR , 393 LEARS INTRODUCTION TO MORE NONSENSE SONGS AND STORIES TN offering this little book the third of its kind- -to the public, I am glad to take the opportunity of recording the pleasure I have received at the ap preciation its predecessors have met with, as attested by their wide circulation, and by the universally kind notices of them from the Press. To have been the means of administering innocent mirth to thousands, may surely be a just motive for satisfaction, and an excuse for grateful expression. At the same time, I am desirous of adding a few words as to the history of the two previously pubRead More