Category Archives: Old Time Fairy Tales

I guess that big red bow doesn’t fool these crafty vermin. The Peter Patter Book 1918

Nothing’s safe from that rascally Little Johnny Green! Mother Goose Rhymes 1860

This just may be worse than ‘Do you want your face to freeze like that?” Favorite Nursery Rhymes (1900) POLLY PICKLENOSE “Polly, Polly, goodness gracious! You must quit your making faces.” Polly laughed at what they said, Cocked her nose … Continue reading →

What a little snit? Ya really gotta hope she’s not the baby-sitter! From Favorite Nursery Stories 1910

I’m not sure if this 1895 nursery rhyme refers to the same Doctor Faustus who sold his soul to the Devil in Christopher Marlowe’s story. My favorite line is the first one- Doctor Faustus was a good man. And his … Continue reading →

Has this ever happened to you? You’re just sitting there, shaping a cloak, when this pesky carrion crow flies in to perch on an oak branch. Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding do. So, of course, you tell … Continue reading →

This charming little verse, from 1897, may just explain why some birds go extinct.

Did that really say: ‘Did you ever puts rats in the rain-barrel, to give poor old granny a scare?’ Good times!

I think this particular Nursery Rhyme, from 1907, illustrates the not so common adage: The weedy word dispatches the bookworm. ‘A Man of Words… and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds; And when the weeds begin … Continue reading →

This Fairy Tale had to be scanned directly from the 1865 book to be believed. I know I wouldn’t be willful after hearing this!