OLD NURSE AT HOME.
OLD NURSE’S BOOK
OF
Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties.
Edited and Illustrated by
Charles H. Bennett,
Author of “Shadows,” etc.
With Ninety Engravings.
London:
Griffith and Farran,
(Late Grant and Griffith, successors to Newbery and Harris)
Corner of St. Paul’s Churchyard.
MDCCCLVIII.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY J. WERTHEIMER AND CO.,
CIRCUS PLACE, FINSBURY.
TO
SYDNEY ROGERS,
A PLAYMATE OF MINE.
My dear Syd.,
If you laugh heartily at the Pictures in this Book, I shall nothave laboured in vain: if you feel glad that the Rhymes are as you and Iremember them, and recognise the few old ones, now printed for thefirst time, it will add to the satisfaction I shall feel.
When you have looked well at the other Cuts, please not to forgetthe little children at the corners of the pages, they represent all thedifferent sorts of boys and girls that I could easily call to mind.
And, with love to all at home,
Believe me to be,
My dear little Boy,
Your affectionate friend,
CHARLES H. BENNETT.
London, November, 1857.
OLD NURSE’S BOOK
OF
RHYMES, JINGLES AND DITTIES.
