DORSET CHILDREN'S DOGGEREL RHYMES. 

 The following rhyme has some points in common : 



I've got a bonnet trimmed with blue. 

 Why doesn't weare it ? Zo, I do ; 

 When do you weare it ? When I can, 

 When I go out wi' my young man. 

 My young man is a -gone to sea, 

 When he comes back he'll marry me, 



marry me, marry me. 

 When he comes back he'll marry me. 



Zee what a purty zister is mine, 

 Don't 'e think she's ter'ble fine ? 

 She's a-most ter'ble cunnen too, 

 Just zee what my zister can do. 

 On the carpet she can kneel 

 As the grass grows in the fieP. 

 Stand up right upon thy feet, 

 And choose the purtiest you like, sweet. 



QUEEN ANNE. 



Queen Anne, Queen Anne, she sot in the sun, 

 So fair as a lily, so white as a nun, 

 She had a white glove on, 

 She drew it off, she drew it on, 

 Turn, ladies, turn. 



The more we turn, the more we may, 

 Queen Anne was born on Midsummer Day, 

 We have brought three letters from the Queen. 

 One of these only by thee must be seen. 



We can't read one, we must read them all, 

 Please (naming some one) deliver the ball. 



WHEN FIRST I WENT TO SCHOOL. 



When first I went to school, to school, to school, 



How happy was I ! 

 'Twas this way and that way (walk round singly), 



How happy was 1 1 



