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Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles

RUTH McENERY STUART

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ILLUSTRATED BY G. H. CLEMENTS

NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1916

Copyright, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, by The Century Co. Published, October, 1913

CONTENTS
CONTENTS

DADDY'S WEATHER PRAYER

THE OLD ROOSTER

THE BUTTERFLY

THE WREN

THE WATERMELON

THE GOURD

JUDGE OWL

THE MOSQUITO

CONFESSION

THE GAME-COCK

THE EPICURE

THE MULE

THE GRUBWORM

RAIN OR SHINE?

LITTLE GREEN TREE-TOAD

SPARROWS

THE FLY

THE LITTLE CHICKEN

THE SCARE-CROW

THE YELLOW ROSE

THE AMBITIOUS COW

TRIED BY FIRE

JACK-O'LANTERN

THE FLEA

WILL O' THE WISP

THE MOLE

THE RUNT

THE MONKEY

THE ARISTOCRAT

THE CRAWFISH

THE ANGLEWORM

THE CHIMNEY-SWALLOW

CATCHING DOODLE-BUGS

THE PORCUPINE

ANTS

THE PARROT

THE RATTLE-SNAKE

THE PERSIMMON

IN HARNESS

THE CANARY

ANSWERING BACK

DAT'S DE WAY MY LADY'LL DO

THE MAMMY ALLIGATOR

THE NEW RICH

THE WIBBLY WABBLY CALF

THE TURKEY-GOBBLER

THE CAULIFLOWER

THE STEPMOTHER

THE FROG

THE RAT

THE MOCKING-BIRD

THE MUSHROOM

THE MEASURING WORM

THE TOP-KNOT HEN

TOO FAMILIAR

THE 'POSSUM

THE OWL

THE CHAMELEON

THE CATERPILLAR

DR. DRAKE

THE PEACOCK

THE ALLIGATOR

THE TERRAPIN

THE DANDELION

THE CUD

THE MIRROR

GOSLINGS

THE PET

THE GUINEA-HEN

THE MOON

THE HEN-ROOST MAN

A GUILTY CONSCIENCE

THE BAT

INCUBATOR CHICKENS

THE FIREFLY

THE THISTLE

THE GRAY SQUIRREL

LOOK OUT FOR MISTER BEE

THE ROSE

THE LOCOMOTIVE

THE GOAT

THE FIG

THE FRIZZLED CHICKEN

THE ENDLESS SONG

THE EEL

THE RAIN-CROW

THE GIRAFFE

THE BLACK SHEEP

THE PRIZE-WINNER

THE DOG

To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters were away fighting in a cause opposed to their emancipation, brought their blankets and slept outside their mistresses' doors, thus keeping night-watch over otherwise unprotected women and children—a faithful guardianship of which the annals of those troublous times record no instance of betrayal.

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