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
