Nursery Rhyme. DLIV. Natural History.

        [Imitated from a pigeon.]

    Curr dhoo, curr dhoo,
    Love me, and I'll love you!

    In the month of February,
        When green leaves begin to spring,
    Little lambs do skip like fairies,
        Birds do couple, build, and sing.

    I had two pigeons bright and gay,
    They flew from me the other day;
    What was the reason they did go?
    I cannot tell for I do not know.

    See, saw, Margery Daw,
    The old hen flew over the malt house,
    She counted her chickens one by one,
    Still she missed the little white one,
    And this is it, this is it, this is it.

    Little Bob Robin,
    Where do you live?
    Up in yonder wood, sir,
    On a hazel twig.

        [A north country version of a very common nursery rhyme, sung by a child, who imitates the crowing of a cock.]

    Cock-a-doodle-do,
    My dad's gane to ploo;
    Mammy's lost her pudding-poke,
    And knows not what to do.