 | Saint-Nicholas - 1879 - 844 pages
...going on ; ladies' work-boxes that began to play as soon as they were opened ; musical albums like the four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, when the pie was opened the birds began to sing. There was a musical saw-milt with waterwheels and a saw in motion, and a bright running stream of water... | |
 | Children's literature - 1879 - 448 pages
...going on; ladies' work-boxes that began to play as soon as they were opened ; musical albums like the four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, when the pie was opened the birds began to sing. There was a musical saw-mill with waterwheels and a saw in motion, and a bright running stream of water... | |
 | Counting-out rhymes - 1880 - 112 pages
...have a new master ; She shall have but a penny a day, Because she can't work any faster. A bag full of rye ; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing : By came a little bird, And nipped off her nose. SAYS t'auld man tit' oak tree, Young and lusty was... | |
 | Margaret E. Whatham - 1882 - 182 pages
...WHAT THE BLACKBIRD DID WITH THE NOSE, SING a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four-and-twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing ; Now, wasn't that a dainty dish To set before a king ? The king was in the counting-house, Counting... | |
 | Sarah Catherine Martin, mother Hubbard - 1883 - 80 pages
...SONG OF SIXPENCE. THE SONG OF SIXPENCE. Sing a song of sixpence, a bag full of rye, Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie ; When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing : And was not that a dainty dish to set before the king ? The king was in the parlour, counting o'er... | |
 | William Taylor Adams - 1883 - 414 pages
...pussy-cat, what d'ye do there ? I frightened — " Little Jack Horner sat in a corner Eating a Christmas pie — " When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing. Was n't this a dainty dish to set before the kinsr ? " There the medley music-box stopped short. No winding... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1889 - 366 pages
...worried the cat." SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE. SING a song of Sixpence, A pocket full of rye ; Four-and- twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was...The birds began to sing ; Was not that a dainty dish The King was in the parlour Counting out his money ; The Queen was in the kitchen Eating bread and... | |
 | 1886 - 698 pages
...No. IL — SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE. O ING a song of sixpence, ° A bag full of rye ; Four-and-twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing ; And wasn't that a dainty dish To lay before the king ? The king was in his parlonr Counting out his... | |
 | Heinrich Baumann - 1887 - 360 pages
...small flein beigeben. sing-a-SODg (fjin'-'-^s'n') NurseryRhyme : Sing-a-song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was open'd, The hirds began to sing; Was not that a, dainty dish To set before the King? The King was ID... | |
 | 1888 - 782 pages
...novel, we are indebted for the rhymes : " Sing a Bong of sixpence ! Sing it to the sky! Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie; When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing, Wasn't this a pretty sight to set before the King." Pies of live birds and frogs having become matters... | |
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Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before the king? 
