# Mother Goose: For Baby

- Source: The Real Mother Goose (mother-goose.gutenberg.org), Public domain, Blanche Fisher Wright, illustrator, 1916, via Project Gutenberg
- Reading level: Ages 4 to 6
- Subjects: Poems, Animals
- Topics: child, myself, shall, thyself, cats, i'll
- Length: 289 words, about 2 min
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You shall have an apple,  
YOU shall have a plum,  
You shall have a rattle,  
When papa comes home.

## Myself

As I walked by myself,  
And talked to myself,  
Myself said unto me:  
"Look to thyself,  
Take care of thyself,  
For nobody cares for thee."  
I answered myself,  
And said to myself  
In the selfsame repartee:  
"Look to thyself,  
Or not look to thyself,  
The selfsame thing will be."

## Candle-Saving

To make your candles last for aye,  
You wives and maids give ear-O!  
To put them out's the only way,  
Says honest John Boldero.

## Over The Water

Over the water, and over the sea,  
And over the water to Charley,  
I'll have none of your nasty beef,  
Nor I'll have none of your barley;  
But I'll have some of your very best flour  
To make a white cake for my Charley.

## Fears And Tears

Tommy's tears and Mary's fears  
Will make them old before their years.

## The Kilkenny Cats

There were once two cats of Kilkenny.  
Each thought there was one cat too many;  
So they fought and they fit,  
And they scratched and they bit,  
Till, excepting their nails,  
And the tips of their tails,  
Instead of two cats, there weren't any.

## Old Grimes

Old Grimes is dead, that good old man,  
We ne'er shall see him more;  
He used to wear a long brown coat  
All buttoned down before.

## A Week Of Birthdays

Monday's child is fair of face,  
Tuesday's child is full of grace,  
Wednesday's child is full of woe,  
Thursday's child has far to go,  
Friday's child is loving and giving,  
Saturday's child works hard for its living,  
But the child that's born on the Sabbath day  
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

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## Picture credits

- Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain (<https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10607/pg10607-images.html>)
- Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain (<https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10607/pg10607-images.html>)
- Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain (<https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10607/pg10607-images.html>)
- Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain (<https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10607/pg10607-images.html>)