Coloring Page of "The Woodcutter's Song"

      The above coloring sheet is from "Walter Crane's Painting Book" for children.  I have also included the small color image below by Crane for coloring reference. These were also included in the original coloring book when it was first published in 1880. I have posted the Mother Goose Rhyme that I believe Crane to have made the illustration for. These rhymes were well known in the late 1800s but are no longer chanted by the school children of today.

The Woodcutter’s Song

Oak logs will warm you well  

That are old and dry  

Logs of pine will sweetly smell   

But the sparks will fly 

Birchs long will burn too fast  

Chestnut scarce at all sir  

Hawthorn logs are good to last  

That are cut well in the fall sir 

Surely you will find  

There´s no compare 

with the hard wood logs  

That´s cut in the winter time 
Holly logs will burn like wax 

You could burn them green  

Elm logs burn like smouldering flax  

With no flame to be seen  

Beech logs for winter time  

Yew logs as well sir  

Green elder logs it is a crime  

For any man to sell sir 

Surely you will find  

There´s no compare 

with the hard wood logs  

That´s cut in the winter time 
Pear logs and apple logs  

They will scent your room  

and cherry logs across the dogs  

They smell like flowers of broom  

But ash logs smooth and grey  

Buy them green or old, sir  

and buy up all that come your way 

They´re worth their weight in gold sir 

- Mother Goose

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