Traditional Childrens Nursery Songs Of England.

Lyrics and with Pictures by Eminent Modern Artists.

	Traditional Nursery Songs. 67 W HAT care I how black I be, Twenty pounds will marry me; If twenty won't, forty shall, I am my mother's bouncing girl! W HEN good king Arthur ruled this land, He was a goodly king; He stole three pecks of barley-meal, To make a bag-pudding. A bag-pudding the king did make, And stufFd it well with plums: And in it put great lumps of fat, As big as my two thumbs. The king and queen did eat thereof, And noblemen beside; And what they could not eat at night, The queen next morning fried. W HEN the wind 's in the east, 'Tis neither good for man nor beast; When the wind is in the north, The skilful fisher then goes not forth;