Central High School - Girardot Yearbook (Cape Girardeau, MO)

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33:,h.M,??, !,?1,TY,T7 A .,,,r,,,, F. . .. -7 A ,V . . .T .Q--if, if mu, .- I ..,.,,f-S. fgfja-Q --Y -'A '1'1 In the Granary Burying Ground in Boston is ai womilen slab wliiclx reads: A MARY, GOOSE Said to br Mather Goose Composer of Nursery Rhymes d. 1757. XX7'i1:l1 this inscrigcion credit was given to the wrong wife of Isaac Vergooseg for it was his second wife, Elizabeth, who sang these little stories to her grandchildren. Her son- in-lziw, Thomas Fleet, was determined to reap a profit from what he deemed silly nonsenseng so he wrote them down, called them Mother Goose Melodiesn, put a goose on the front page of the first edition which was published in 1719, and sold them for two coppers each. ' Many of these rhymes had been known to France earlier through Charles Perraulsfs publication. some were taken from the stories of English history, some were Icelandic in origin, while others came from old Briton sources or even from the Hebrew. But it is to Elizabeth Vergoose that we wish to dedicate this book, for it is to her that so many of us owe our gratitude for lung hours of joy, pleasure, and proiic. M- ' ' W ,,,l,gA, .QL ,,,,u,, ,564 It ...M

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Whilter T. lfield says, Mother Goose is the starting point from which mankind begins its knowledge of booksf' The novelist gained his first idea of plot from the rhymes heard nt his mother's knee, the poetis first idea of rhythm was found in Little Miss Muffetng the tr11gedienne's hrst sad story was Ding, Dong Bellng the historian'S first chronicle was London Bridge , the fine figments of imaginative thought began with Hey, Uiddle, Diddlen. Not only have our books found beginnings in these early rhymes, but also our first speeches Were lisped as we performed one of these immortal verses. In the pages that follow we have chosen a rather whimsical treatment of facts, and we use many of these old rhymes on which to build our parallels. PS.,?-'Hi-T , 94212, , , SIGN 24 ,fl x 'x SIN - Y wAv5, -YA?

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