Pussy-cat plays in the flower garden.

I have a little pussy-cat.

She is a pretty pussy-cat.

She has a warm, white coat.
She has a big white tail.

Shall I tell you what she does?
My pussy-cat runs up the big trees.
She frightens the little birds.
She plays in the flower garden.
She frightens the butterflies.
She is a queer pussy-cat.

My pussy ran away this morning.
She has been gone all day.
She has just come back.

And where do you think she has been? I will tell you.

I said to my pussy-cat,
"Pussy-cat, pussy-cat,

Where have you been?”
And pussy-cat said to me,
"I've been to London
To look at the Queen.”

Then I said,

"Pussy-cat, pussy-cat,
What did you there?”

And this is what pussy-cat said,
"I frightened a little mouse
Under the chair."

Hickory, dickory, dock,

The mouse ran up the clock;
The clock struck one,

And down he run,
Hickory, dickory, dock."

Once there was a little mouse.
He liked to run and play.

One day he saw a big clock.
"What a big thing!" said the

mouse.

"What a queer thing!" said the

mouse.

"I wonder what it is.

I think I will go and see.
It is saying something.

It says, Hickory, dickory, dock.

I wonder what it says that for."

"This will make me a good house," said the little mouse.

"I see a door.

I will go in and go to sleep.

I think no one is in the house.
I can have it all alone."

So the mouse ran up the clock.
But just then the clock struck one.
The poor mouse was frightened.
He ran down very fast.

He did not go to sleep in the clock. I wonder why.

"Hickory, dickory, dock,

The mouse ran up the clock;
The clock struck one,

And down he run,
Hickory, dickory, dock.”

ONCE.

Once I saw a little bird,
Come hop, hop, hop;
So I said, "Little bird,
Will you stop, stop, stop?"

The bird saw a pussy-cat.
She said to the pussy-cat,
"Pussy-cat, pussy-cat,
Where have you been?"

The pussy-cat said,

"I've been to London
To look at the Queen."

"Pussy-cat, pussy-cat,
What did you there?"

“I frightened a little mouse
Under the chair."