# Mother Goose: The Greedy Man - 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: willy, come, leeds, o'clock, woman, barn - Length: 213 words, about 2 min - Original: - Page: - Open in Sprouts: The greedy man is he who sits And bites bits out of plates, Or else takes up an almanac And gobbles all the dates. ## The Ten O'Clock Scholar A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar! What makes you come so soon? You used to come at ten o'clock, But now you come at noon. ## Cock-A-Doodle-Do Oh, my pretty cock, oh, my handsome cock, I pray you, do not crow before day, And your comb shall be made of the very beaten gold, And your wings of the silver so gray. ## An Icicle Lives in winter, Dies in summer, And grows with its roots upward! ## A Ship'S Nail Over the water, And under the water, And always with its head down. ## Willy, Willy Willy, Willy Wilkin Kissed the maids a-milking, Fa, la, la! And with his merry daffing He set them all a-laughing, Ha, ha, ha! ## The Old Woman Of Leeds There was an old woman of Leeds, Who spent all her time in good deeds; She worked for the poor Till her fingers were sore, This pious old woman of Leeds! ## The Boy In The Barn A little boy went into a barn, And lay down on some hay. An owl came out, and flew about, And the little boy ran away. ## Picture credits - Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain () - Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain () - Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain () - Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain ()