The Frog
by Hilaire Belloc
Be kind and tender to the Frog,
And do not call him names,
As "Slimy-skin," or "Pollywog,"
Or likewise "Uncle James,"
Or "Gape'a'grin," or "Toad'gone'wrong,"
Or "Billy -Bandy Knees":
The frog is justly sensitive
To epithets like these.
No animal will more repay
A treatment kind and fair,
At least so lonely people say
Who keep a frog (and by the way,
They are extremely rare) .
Showing posts with label frogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frogs. Show all posts
Sunday, July 21, 2024
The Frog
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Billy Basso Bull Frog
Billy Basso
Bull Frog
by Florence M. Pettee
Billy Basso Bullfrog
A-rumbling in the dark,
A-tuning up his viol,
While all the swamp fold hark.
With a pinky and a panky,
And a ga-lum, ga-lum, ga-LUM!
Billy Basso's found his fiddle,
While all the frog folks hum.
With a pinky and a panky,
All the swamp's a lullaby,
With the big bass viol strumming
'Way down where the tadpoles lie.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Mother Goose Auto Parade - mini book
Paper mini book by Harvey Peake, restored by kathy grimm. Front Cover |
This adorable mini book is by Harvey Peake. It comes with rhymes and illustrations of automobiles only found in the imagination of a child. Assemble it as a mini book or cut the patterns out and pin them into a boarder in your classroom. Either way, little ones are sure to enjoy coloring them in and learning their nursery rhymes.
A frog he would a-wooing go In a very stylish way, So he bought a frogmobile, you know, And the lady frog said "Yea!" |
Jack be nimble! Jack be quick! Jack, jump over the candlestick! Jack jumped when something struck his wheel, For his candlestick was an automo- bile! |
The Man in the Moon, Come down too soon, And asked his way to Norwich. In his crescent machine, Made of cheese so green, He drove off after his porridge. |
Little Bo Peep had lost her sheep, And didn't know where to find them; But she turned them all to automobiles, And now she rides behind them. |
"Will you come into my auto?" Said the spider to the fly. "There is room in my Web-tonneau And I'll join you by and by." |
There was an old woman Who lived in a shoe, She had so many children She didn't know what to do. But she mounted the shoe On a big motor car, And now there is room For them all without jar. |
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, Had a wife and couldn't keep her; He made a car of the pumpkin shess, And there he kept her very well. |
There was an old woman lived under a hill On auto'bile wheels that wouldn't stand still. So she drove around selling her cranberry pies,- And she's the old woman who never told lies. |
"Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow?'' "Oh, now that I have a car," she said, "It grows twice as fast, you know." |
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Restored Antique Alphabet Prints
These restored antique alphabet prints would look charming in a child's nursery/bedroom or a homeschool classroom. I've cleaned and restored them for your next alphabet craft. Enjoy and read the Terms of Use before printing them out.
The above image for pinning please. |
A was and Apple, an Archer, an Arrow. B was a Bird, Bear and a Barrow. |
C for Cat and D for Dish, E for an Elephant, F for a Fish. |
G for Goose and Ha for Ham, I for an Inn and J for Jam. |
K for Kite and L for Light. M for the Moon and N for Night. O for Owl and P for Prattle, Q for the Queen and R for Rattle. |
S for Ship and T for Tap, U for an Urn and V for Vat. W for Windmill, for Watch & Wren, X stands in English for no word but ten. |
Y is for Yew, for Youth and for Yeast, Z is for Zebra a beautiful beast. |
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