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THE PETER PATTER BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES
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THE PETER PATTER BOOK of NURSERY RHYMES by Pictures by LEROY F. BLANCHE JACKSON FISHER WRIGHT
To ANDREW, PUDGE, AND BOBBY My first appreciative audience
Copyright © 1918 by Rand McNally & Company. Renewal copyright 1946 by Rand McNally & Co. All rights reserved.
PETER PATTER told them to me, All the little rimes, Whispered them among the bushes Half a hundred times. Peter lives upon a mountain Pretty near the sun, Knows the bears and birds and rabbits Nearly every one; Has a home among the alders, Bed of cedar bark, Walks alone beneath the pine trees Even when it’s dark. Squirrels tell him everything That happens in the trees, Cricket in the gander-grass Sings of all he sees; Rimes from bats and butterflies, Crabs and waterfowl; But the best of all he gets From his Uncle Owl. Sometimes when its day-time, But mostly in the night, They sit beneath an oak tree And hug each other tight, And tell their rimes and riddles Where the catty creatures prowl— Funny little Peter Patter And his Uncle Owl.