# Mother Goose: A Cherry - 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: swan, bumpety, lumpety, bump, farmer, lump - Length: 245 words, about 2 min - Original: - Page: - Open in Sprouts: As I went through the garden gap, Who should I meet but Dick Red-cap! A stick in his hand, a stone in his throat,-- If you'll tell me this riddle, I'll give you a groat. ## The Lost Shoe Doodle doodle doo, The Princess lost her shoe: Her Highness hopped,-- The fiddler stopped, Not knowing what to do. ## Hot Codlins There was a little woman, as I've been told, Who was not very young, nor yet very old; Now this little woman her living got By selling codlins, hot, hot, hot! ## Swan Swan, swan, over the sea; Swim, swan, swim! Swan, swan, back again; Well swum, swan! ## Three Straws Three straws on a staff Would make a baby cry and laugh. ## The Man Of Tobago There was an old man of Tobago Who lived on rice, gruel, and sago, Till much to his bliss, His physician said this: "To a leg, sir, of mutton, you may go." ## A Sunshiny Shower A sunshiny shower Won't last half an hour. ## The Farmer And The Raven A farmer went trotting upon his gray mare, Bumpety, bumpety, bump! With his daughter behind him so rosy and fair, Lumpety, lumpety, lump! A raven cried croak! and they all tumbled down, Bumpety, bumpety, bump! The mare broke her knees, and the farmer his crown, Lumpety, lumpety, lump! The mischievous raven flew laughing away, Bumpety, bumpety, bump! And vowed he would serve them the same the next day, Lumpety, lumpety lump! ## Picture credits - Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain () - Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain () - Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain () - Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain ()