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Previous -Index-NextCole's Funny Picture Book No. 1Written And Compiled By E.W. Cole (1832-1918)First Published 1879 By Cole Publications, Melbourne, Australia.73rd Edition Totalling 920,000 copies.[*]Front Cover.COLE'S Funny Picture Book No. 1Or Family Amuser And Instructor;To Delight The Children And Make Home Happier;The Best Child's Picture Book In All The World.It Contains Also Choice Riddles, Gamesand pieces of reading for Adults.Look through it yourself.Long ago the Rainbow was a Sign it is said,Now 'tis the Sign of Cole's Book Arcade.So, when in the sky a bow is displayed,Be sure that you think of the Book Arcade.Cole's Book Arcade strange as it looks,Contains more than a million books.New and second-hand, common and rare,Can get most any book you want there.[*] BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: The reprintings of this book since Cole's death in 1918 have involved very few changes, and in most cases it has been bibliographically misleading to term them "editions". Undoubtedly, somewhere in the past, the distinction between a "printing" and an "edition" has not been understood. However, with due cognisance of the irregularity, the practice of giving each reprint a new edition number accompanied by a running sales total is being maintained for statistical interest.Portrait of E. W. Cole.Edward William ColeBorn Woodchurch, Kent, England4th January, 1832Died Essendon, Victoria, Australia16th December, 1918Previous-Index-NextPage 1—AustraliaAustralia Is The Best Country On EarthAustralia a Grand CountryI think that Australia, for it's size, is, all-round, the best country in the world. It's climate is pleasant and health-giving. It has no desolating blizzards, no frost bites, and few sunstrokes. In edible produce, for both size and quality, it stands very high, if not the highest. I have been in many lands, but never saw a country supply such a variety of products as Australia does—potatoes, onions, cabbages, carrots, peas, beans and scores of other vegetables in abundance. In fruits it produces apples, pears, plums, peaches, oranges, grapes, and Northern Australia also produces all the tropical fruits in abundance wherever cultivated. In corn Australia produces superior wheat, oats, barley, maize and all other kinds in abundance, especially when scientifically irrigated. As a milk, butter and meat country, it is one of the best in the world. It is the largest and best wool-producing country in the world. It contains the largest area in the world especially suitable for growing cotton, the most extensively-used clothing material. Flowers grow luxuriantly and beautifully whenever cultivated and watered. A few years ago when writing on the "White Australia" question, I stated that with high culture, water irrigation, and scientific irrigation, Australia was capable of supporting 400 millions of inhabitants. A high literary authority, in reviewing the book, remarked that this seemed like a "gross exaggeration"; but probably he had not thought so much on the subject as I had.I will here concisely state the principle reasons for my opinion. The great want of Australia, to make it amazingly fruitful, is the complete conservation of water and it's scientific application to the soil. Water, warmth, and soil will grow anything in Australia, if rationally managed. Australia has abundance of water now running to waste. On thousands of house-roofs water enough is caught for the domestic use of the respective families. Over large areas of the country there are 30 inches of rainfall, and the average rainfall over vast areas is 24 inches, and could be made much greater by cultivation. Four-fifths of this water now runs to waste. Again surface-parched Australia has vast areas of underground water which only require to be tapped and brought to the surface, to irrigate and fertilise the soil.Australia is also a country where timber grows well and fast, if planted in trenched ground and slightly irrigated. Hundreds of straight trees can be grown upon an acre of land if they are first planted thickly and some gradually thinned out. Many kinds of trees will grow upon very poor soil if they are properly planted and irrigated, as the bulk of their sustenance is derived from the air. One more remark about trees and their possibilities as food providers. Wherever any kind of tree will grow some kind of fruit tree will grow. There are hundreds of millions of gum trees growing in Australia. Where every one of these trees is, some kind of fruit tree would grow if properly planted and looked after.Again, to utilise Australia to it's full extent the whole world should be sought through for the best plants and trees of every kind, and only the very best grown, and those in situations and soil best adapted for them.One argument against Australia is that much of its surface is sandy, but experiments and developments in various countries show that the planting of marram grass, lupins, and other plants ties even the drifting sand together and gradually, through their decay, turns the sandy wastes into fertile soil. Besides, science can, in many other ways, utilise the elements in the air to enrich the soil.Australia's Mineral ResourcesIt has been objected that in the above epitome no mention is made of the great mineral wealth of Australia. The reason is that minerals, exceedingly useful as they are in the arts, are not absolutely necessary (with the exception perhaps of iron) to the feeding, clothing, and housing of mankind. Vast multitudes have lived without them; but it may be remarked that Australia is a country very rich in minerals; some hold it the richest in the world. It possesses immense deposits of iron not yet utilised, and the most extensive gold-fields yet discovered. Australia and Tasmania have, according to the latest estimate of our Commonwealth Statistician, produced minerals to the value of £660,252,694—comprising in round numbers, Gold £474,000,000; Tin £24,000,000; and other kinds £8,000,000. The bulk of the above has been produced during the last 60 years, in a population rising from about 300,000 to 4,000,000 and it forecasts how vast the mineral-producing future of Australia is likely to be. Altogether Australia is a country as highly favoured by nature as any other of equal size upon earth, for the bountiful production of useful animals, vegetables, minerals, and men.The Best Country On Earth—Unknown Australia"'If we Australians took as much trouble to prepare for our summer as the Canadians take to forestall their winter, Australia would be THE MOST PROSPEROUS COUNTRY ON EARTH.'The speaker was the Rev. A. R. Edgar, head of the Central Mission, Melbourne."'After circling the globe, then, you are still satisfied that Australia is not a bad country to live in?'"'The best,' said Mr Edgar, emphatically. 'I have no hesitation in saying that Canada and America are not to be compared with Australia. Unfortunately, England doesn't know it. Australia herself doesn't half realise it, and as for America and Canada, they haven't the remotest ghost of a notion of it. In England they learn with regrettable slowness, and their knowledge is scanty indeed; but across the Atlantic the ignorance is deplorable. "Australia?" says the Canadian. "Oh yes! Let's see, that's the place where it's always droughty—yes, yes, to be sure, the place where y' can't get a drink of water." He laughs at the idea of Australia producing as much wool and wheat as Canada, and bluntly tells you there's no country on the face of the planet can grow wheat and wool like his. But the fact is, there isn't a bit of territory fit to compare with the Western District of Victoria, for example, and conditions are infinitely harder for the agriculturist than in Australia. Canada's western district is icebound in winter, and her eastern lands are strewn over with great boulders, between which the plough works laboriously in and out'."—From the "New Idea."I often feel for the dweller in Canada; for notwithstanding his beautiful spring and autumn he has six months of ice and snow and freezing winds, and I feel selfishly grateful that my lot is cast in more genial Australia.Let us well ponder Mr. Edgar's concise and forcible statement: "If we Australians took as much trouble to prepare for our summer as the Canadians take to forestall their winter, Australia would be the most prosperous country on earth."This is quite true. The Canadian must thoughtfully and rationally prepare for his winter, or he would freeze and starve. We have no frigid climate to prepare against, but we have possible drought, and our first and greatest consideration should be the conservation of water for irrigation.This water conservation is exceedingly important thing. Men do not think, and the waste is enormous. When the rain falls it runs into the gully, from the gully to the creek, from the creek to the river, from the river into the sea; and then in the dry season water is deplorably scarce.I once asked a young squatter from the New South Wales side of the Murray "Have you got a garden?" He answered: "No: it is too dry up our way!" I said, "How do you get water for domestic purposes?" He answered, "We catch it off the roof; we catch it in 11 tanks and are never out of a supply." I asked, "How large an area have all your roofs put together?" He answered, "I think about 20 feet by 100 feet." This would be about a twentieth of an acre. Now just reflect! One acre of rainfall would supply, if caught, 20 establishments like that squatter's home, for the rain would fall fairly alike over that part of the country. A rainfall of 30 inches over an acre of ground measures about 680,000 gallons and weighs about 3000 tons, the bulk of which is allowed to run away every year!A gentleman said to me the other day, "Since the water was brought to Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie, under Sir John Forrest's great scheme, they have very beautiful gardens right along the line of supply. Wherever the water touches the land the vegetation is splendid, and, what is more, the evaporation is bringing heavier rainfall." Of course, wherever cultivation and irrigation are carried on, more evaporation takes place, and, in most cases, causes additional rainfall.When I affirmed that Australia was capable of supporting 400 millions of people I did not mean Australia as we now have it, but as it might be, and probably will be, when water is carefully conserved and its soil scientifically irrigated and cultivated.E.W. ColePrevious-Index-NextPage 2—Cole's Funny Picture BookI Want Cole's Funny Picture Book.Previous- Index -NextPage 3—IndexThis Is The Funniest Picture Book In The World For ChildrenIf you search through the World you will not get a book that will so please a child, if you pay £100 or even £1000 for it. To parents, Grandparents, Uncles, Aunts, and Friends—Every Good Child should be given one of these Books for being Good. Every Bad Child should be given one to try to make it Good.BABY RHYMESBaby Going to Bed4Baby, Getting up5This Pig Went to Market6Baby Riding6Naughty Baby7LITTLE CHILDREN'S STORIESTom Thumb's Alphabet8Sing a Song-a-Sixpence8A Apple Pie8Captain Duck8Hey-Diddle-Diddle9GIRL LANDCry-Baby Belle10A Naughty Little Girl10Paulina Pry10Tearful Annie10Hattie's Birthday11Youth and Age11A Lost Child11Little Mary11Girl and Angel11Girl Who Wouldn't go to Bed12Girl That Beat Her Sister12The Sulky Girl12Girl Who Sucked Her Fingers12The Greedy Little Girl12Girl Who Played With Fire12The Vulgar Little Lady12Peggy Won't13The Wonderful Shadows13Little Bo-Peep14Pammy Was A Pretty Girl14The Little Husband14I'm Governess14Meddlesome Matty15Girl Who Spilled the Ink15Girl Who Was Always Tasting15Sally the Lazy Girl15Girl Who Wouldn't Comb Her Hair15The Nasty Cross Girls15Little Red Riding Hood16I'm Grandmama16The Babes in the Wood16Cinderella17The Three Bears17Bluebeard17My Girl18My Little Daughter's Shoes18The Old Cradle18A Little Goose18Girls19Girls Names19Vain Sarah19Several Kinds of Girls19Jumping Jennie20I Don't Care20Little Miss Meddlesome20Careless Matilda20Forty Little School Girls21Funny Monkeys21Tangle Pate22A Careless Girl22The Naughty Girl22Mopy Maria22Disobedient May22Sluttishness22Jane Who Bit Her Nails22Poking Fun22The Pin23Stupid Jane23Pouting Polly23Untidy Emily23Maidenhood24Girls That Are in Demand24Girls' Names24Name of Kate24Girl-Scolding Machine25Jenny Lee26Work Before Play26Lucy Grey26Mary Had a Little Lamb26We Are Seven27The poor But Blind Girl27Grace Darling27The Tidy Girl27Ruby Cole28BOY LANDVally Cole29Tom The Piper's Son30House That Jack Built31Simple Simon31Ten Little Niggers31Jack the Giant Killer32Jack and the Beanstalk32Hop-o-my-Thumb33Tom Thumb33Naughty Boys34Dirty Jack35Mischievous Fingers35Boy Stealing Apples35Playing With Fire35Wicked Willie36Rude, Bad, Naughty Boy36Little Chinky Chow37That Nice Boy38A Wicked Joking Boy38Jack the Glutton39Tom the Dainty Boy39A birds Nest Robber39A Cruel Boy39Boy Whipping Machine40-41DOLLY LANDPuss's Doll42Pretty Doll42Dolly and I43Dolly's Broken Arm43Polly and Her Dolly43Singing to Dolly44My Dolly44Dolly's Asleep44Lost Dolly45Talking To Dolly45Darling Dolly45Ten Little Dollies46Washing-Day Troubles47New Tea Things47Doll Dress Making48Dolly Town48The Lost Doll48Dolly's Counterpane48Sewing For Dolly48My Little Doll Rose48The Wooden Doll48Buy My Dolls48Dolly's Doctor49Dolly's Broken Nose49The Dead Dolly49The Soldier Dolly49Christening Dolly50Maggie's Talk to Dolly50Minnie's Talk to Dolly50My Dolly50Dolly's Wedding50Grandmamma's Visit51Lucy's Dolls51The Doll Show52A Doll's Adventures53Story of a Doll53I'm Homesick Dolly Dear54A Thousand Names ForDollies and Babies55,56,57NAUGHTINESS LANDGood Mamma58How They Made Up58Cross Patch58Sulky Sarah58A New Year's Gift59Angry Words59Love One Another59Anger60Girl That Beat Her Sister60Little Dick Snappy60Where Do You Live61Govern Your Temper61The Ragged Girl's Sunday62Foolish Fanny62Pride63Finery63A Fop63Greedy Ned64Greedy Girl64Greedy Richard64Story Of an Apple64The Plum Cake65The Glutton65Hoggish Henry65Selfishness65Truthful Dottie66False Alarms66Girl That Told A Lie66Idle Mary67Lazy Sal67The Work Bag67The Two Gardens67Doing Nothing67Lazy Sam68The Beggar Man68Lazyland68The Lazy Boy69The Sluggard69Idle Dicky and the Goat69Come and Go69The Cruel Boy70Story of Cruel Fred70The Worm70No One Will See Me71Boy and His Mother71Boys and the Apple Tree72Thou Shalt Not Steal72The Thief72The Thieves' Ladder73SANTA CLAUS LANDSanta Claus Land74A Visit From St. Nicholas75What Santa Claus Brings75Little Mary75Christmas75Christmas Eve Adventure76Little Bennie76Old Santa Claus77Night Before Christmas77Annie and Willie's Prayer78Budd's Stocking79Christmas Morning79Nellie And Santa Claus80Hang Up Baby's Stocking80PLAY LANDRabbit on the Wall81Little Romp81Tired of Play82The Lost Playmate82In The Toy Shop83Playing Store83Neat Little Clara83Hide and Seek83Little Sailors84Come Out to Play84Mud Pies84Hay Making84Johnny the Stout85Training Time86Playtime87Romping87Nurse's Song87Swinging88Skating88The skipping Rope88The Baby's Debut89READING LANDReading90Mrs Grammar's Ball90Grammar in Rhyme90Reading Land91WRITING LANDLittle Flo's Letter92The First Letter92Baby's Letter to Uncle92Nell's Letter92Two Letters92Going to Write to Papa93Papa's Letter93Polly's Letter to Ben94The Sunday Fisherman95Essay on Pictures96DRAWING LANDThe New Slate97Learning to Draw98A Lesson in Drawing99OLD MEN TALESOld Man and His Wife100John Ball Shot Them All100Funny Old Man100Strange Men100Jack Sprat101Cross Old Man101Very Funny Men101Utter Nonsense102History Of John Gilpin103Australian Native Choir104OLD WOMEN TALESWoman Who Lived in a Shoe106Mother Goose107Old Women of Stepney107Funny Old Women108Old Woman Who WentUp in a Basket108Twenty-six Funny Women109TRAVELLING LANDForty Ways of Travelling110-113Flying Machines114-117NAME LANDBoys' Names118Girls' Names119GAME LANDCole's Game of Hatsand Bonnets120-123Riddles and Catches124-127Picture Puzzles128-143Shadows on the Wall144Deaf and Dumb Alphabet145Language of Flowers146Kindness to Animals147Funny Australian Natives148-149PUSSY LANDMy Pussy150Pussy-Cat and Mousey150Puss and the Monkey150Mary's Puss Drowned150Dame Trot's Puss151Daddy Hubbard's Cat152Story of a Little Mouse153Tom, Puss, and the Rats154Puss in Boots155Monkey and the Cats155Dick Whittington155More Pussy Land156The White Kitten157Little Pussy158Puss and the Crab158Puss in the Corner159Tabby159Old Puss159Dead Kitten160My Own Puss161Putting Kitty to Bed161DOGGY LANDMother Hubbard and Dog162Puss and Rover163No Breakfast for Growler163Poor Old Tray163GOAT LANDO'Grady's Goat164The Goat and the Swing164MONKEY LANDMeddlesome Jacko165A Fruitless Sorrow165GEE-GEE LANDThe Wonderful Horse166The Horse166Good Dobbin166Horse Sentenced to Die167The Arab and His Horse167Farmer John168DONKEY LANDThe Cottager's Donkey169Old Jack the Donkey169Poor Donkey's Epitaph169MOO-MOO LANDThe Cow and the Ass170The Cowboy's Song171That Calf171BA-BA LANDThe Lost Lamb172The Pet Lamb172-173PIGGY LANDThe Pig is a Gentleman174Five Little Pigs174The Self-willed pig174Three Naughty Pigs175The Spectre Pig175The Chinese Pig176Dame Crump and Her Pig176Old Woman and Her Pig177The Three Little Pigs177BUNNY LANDDisobedient Bunny178The Wild Rabbits178The Pet Rabbit178The Little Hare179The Poor Hunted Hare179Epitaph on a Hare179RAT LANDPied Piper of Hamelin180Wicked Bishop Hatto181MOUSEY LANDThe Three Mice182The Foolish Mouse182Run, Mousey, Run!182The Gingerbread Cat182A Clever Mother Mouse183The Mouse's Call183The Foolish Mouse183FROGGY LANDThe Foolish Frogs184Marriage of Mr. Froggie184Frogs at School184Frog That Went a Wooing185Mixed Animal Land186-187The Squirrel188Wonderful Bird Nests189Cole's Poems on Books190COMIC ADVERTISERSerious Sambo191Laughter as a Medicine191Man Made to Laugh191Josh Billings' Prayer191Fun Better Than Physic192Fun About Music193Going to Coles' BookArcade194-195Wonderful Sea Serpent196Funny, Foolish andUseful Fashions197-201Boy Smoking202-203Narcotics and Intoxicants204Pipes of the World205READER—There are only 365 pieces mentioned in this index, but the Book contains 2,000 pieces and pictures, large and small. It is a complete cyclopoedia of child-lore, and first-class kindergarten book—to amuse and teach at the same time. No child's book ever published has been, nor is now, so great a favourite as this one.Previous-Index-NextPage 4—Baby RhymesTired And Going To Bed.A Piece of Poetry for Mother and Father to ReadI suppose if all the children,Who have lived through ages long,Were collected and inspectedThey would make a wondrous throng.Oh the babble of the Babel!Oh, the flutter and the fuss;To begin with Cain and Abel,And to finish up with us!Some have never laughed nor spoken,Never used their rosy feet;Some have even flown to heaven,Ere they knew that earth was sweet.And indeed, I wonder whether,If we reckon every birth,And bring such a flock together,There is room for them on earth.Think of all the men and womenWho are now and who have been;Every nation since creationThat this world of ours has seen.And of all of them not anyBut was once a baby small;While of children, oh, how manyNever have grown up at all.Previous-Index-NextPage 5—Baby RhymesGetting Up As Happy As Larks.Who will wash their smiling faces?Who their saucy ears will box?Who will dress them and caress them?Who will darn their little socks?Where are arms enough to hold them?Hands to pat each smiling head?Who will praise them? who will scold them?Who will pack them off to bed?Little happy Christian children,Little savage children too,In all stages of all ages,That our planet ever knew;Little princes and princesses,Little beggars, wan and faint—Some in very handsome dresses,Naked some, bedaubed with paint.Only think of the confusionSuch a motley crowd would make;And the clatter of their chatter,And the things that they won't breakOh the babble of the Babel!Oh, the flutter and the fuss;To begin with Cain and Abel,And to finish up with us!Previous-Index-NextPage 6—Children's RhymesChildren's RhymesThis Pig Went To Market.1. This pig went to market:2. This pig stayed at home:3. This pig had meat:4. This pig had none:5. And this pig cried, "Wee, wee," all the way home.Game of Child's FeaturesHere sits the Lord Mayor! (forehead)Here sits his two men! (eyes)Here sits the cock! (right cheek)Here sits the hen! (left cheek)Here sit the little chickens! (tip of nose)Here they run in; (mouth)Chinchopper, chinchopper,Chinchopper, chin! (chuck the chin)Face GameRing the bell! (giving its hair a pull)Knock at the door! (tapping its forehead)Draw the latch! (pulling up it's nose)And walk in! (putting finger in mouth)Face Game(Eye) Bo Peeper! (Nose) Nose dreeper!(Chin) Chinchopper!(Teeth) White Lopper!(Mouth) little gap! (Tongue) and red rag!Game on the Toes1. Let us go to the wood, says this pig;2. What to do there? says that pig;3. Too look for my mother, says this pig;4. What to do with her? says that pig;5. Kiss her to death, says this pig.Going to MarketTo market, to market, to buy a fat pig;Home again, home again, jiggety-jig.To market, to market, to buy a fat hog;Home again, home again, joggety-jog.Baby RidingRide baby, ride, pretty baby shall ride,And have a little puppy-dog tied to her side.And a little pussy-cat tied to the other,And away she shall ride to see her grand-mother,To see her grandmother.Ride a Cock-HorseRide a cock-horse to banbury-cross,To see what Tommy can buy;A penny white loaf, a penny white cake,And a two-penny apple pie.Ride a cock-horse to banbury-cross,To see a young lady on a white horse,Rings on her fingers, and bells on her toes,And so she makes music wherever she goes.Baby RidingThis is the way the ladies ride;Tre, tre, tree,This is the way the ladies ride;Tre, tre, tree.This is the way the gentlemen ride;Gallop-a-gallop-a-trot!This is the way the gentlemen ride;Gallop-a-gallop-a-trot!This is the way the farmers ride;Hobbledy-hobbledy-hoy!This is the way the farmers ride;Hobbledy-hobbledy-hoy!Clap HandsClap hands, clap hands,Till father comes home;For father's got money,But mother's got none.When Dad Comes HomeYou shall have an apple,You shall have a plum,You shall have a rattle,When your dad comes home.Pat-A-CakePat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man!So I will, master, as fast as I can,Pat it, and prick it, and mark it with T,Put it in the oven for Tommy and me.Come, Butter, ComeChurn, butter, churn! come, butter, come!Peter stands at the gate,Waiting for a butter cake;Come, butter, come!Baby CryingWhen Jacky's a very good boy,He shall have cakes and a custard;But when he does nothing but cry,He shall have nothing but mustard.Previous-Index-Next

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Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1Written And Compiled By E.W. Cole (1832-1918)First Published 1879 By Cole Publications, Melbourne, Australia.73rd Edition Totalling 920,000 copies.[*]Front Cover.

Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1Written And Compiled By E.W. Cole (1832-1918)First Published 1879 By Cole Publications, Melbourne, Australia.73rd Edition Totalling 920,000 copies.[*]

Written And Compiled By E.W. Cole (1832-1918)First Published 1879 By Cole Publications, Melbourne, Australia.73rd Edition Totalling 920,000 copies.[*]

COLE'S Funny Picture Book No. 1Or Family Amuser And Instructor;To Delight The Children And Make Home Happier;The Best Child's Picture Book In All The World.It Contains Also Choice Riddles, Gamesand pieces of reading for Adults.Look through it yourself.Long ago the Rainbow was a Sign it is said,Now 'tis the Sign of Cole's Book Arcade.So, when in the sky a bow is displayed,Be sure that you think of the Book Arcade.Cole's Book Arcade strange as it looks,Contains more than a million books.New and second-hand, common and rare,Can get most any book you want there.

Or Family Amuser And Instructor;To Delight The Children And Make Home Happier;The Best Child's Picture Book In All The World.

It Contains Also Choice Riddles, Gamesand pieces of reading for Adults.Look through it yourself.

Long ago the Rainbow was a Sign it is said,Now 'tis the Sign of Cole's Book Arcade.So, when in the sky a bow is displayed,Be sure that you think of the Book Arcade.Cole's Book Arcade strange as it looks,Contains more than a million books.New and second-hand, common and rare,Can get most any book you want there.

[*] BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: The reprintings of this book since Cole's death in 1918 have involved very few changes, and in most cases it has been bibliographically misleading to term them "editions". Undoubtedly, somewhere in the past, the distinction between a "printing" and an "edition" has not been understood. However, with due cognisance of the irregularity, the practice of giving each reprint a new edition number accompanied by a running sales total is being maintained for statistical interest.

Portrait of E. W. Cole.

Edward William ColeBorn Woodchurch, Kent, England4th January, 1832Died Essendon, Victoria, Australia16th December, 1918

Edward William Cole

Born Woodchurch, Kent, England4th January, 1832

Died Essendon, Victoria, Australia16th December, 1918

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Australia Is The Best Country On EarthAustralia a Grand CountryI think that Australia, for it's size, is, all-round, the best country in the world. It's climate is pleasant and health-giving. It has no desolating blizzards, no frost bites, and few sunstrokes. In edible produce, for both size and quality, it stands very high, if not the highest. I have been in many lands, but never saw a country supply such a variety of products as Australia does—potatoes, onions, cabbages, carrots, peas, beans and scores of other vegetables in abundance. In fruits it produces apples, pears, plums, peaches, oranges, grapes, and Northern Australia also produces all the tropical fruits in abundance wherever cultivated. In corn Australia produces superior wheat, oats, barley, maize and all other kinds in abundance, especially when scientifically irrigated. As a milk, butter and meat country, it is one of the best in the world. It is the largest and best wool-producing country in the world. It contains the largest area in the world especially suitable for growing cotton, the most extensively-used clothing material. Flowers grow luxuriantly and beautifully whenever cultivated and watered. A few years ago when writing on the "White Australia" question, I stated that with high culture, water irrigation, and scientific irrigation, Australia was capable of supporting 400 millions of inhabitants. A high literary authority, in reviewing the book, remarked that this seemed like a "gross exaggeration"; but probably he had not thought so much on the subject as I had.I will here concisely state the principle reasons for my opinion. The great want of Australia, to make it amazingly fruitful, is the complete conservation of water and it's scientific application to the soil. Water, warmth, and soil will grow anything in Australia, if rationally managed. Australia has abundance of water now running to waste. On thousands of house-roofs water enough is caught for the domestic use of the respective families. Over large areas of the country there are 30 inches of rainfall, and the average rainfall over vast areas is 24 inches, and could be made much greater by cultivation. Four-fifths of this water now runs to waste. Again surface-parched Australia has vast areas of underground water which only require to be tapped and brought to the surface, to irrigate and fertilise the soil.Australia is also a country where timber grows well and fast, if planted in trenched ground and slightly irrigated. Hundreds of straight trees can be grown upon an acre of land if they are first planted thickly and some gradually thinned out. Many kinds of trees will grow upon very poor soil if they are properly planted and irrigated, as the bulk of their sustenance is derived from the air. One more remark about trees and their possibilities as food providers. Wherever any kind of tree will grow some kind of fruit tree will grow. There are hundreds of millions of gum trees growing in Australia. Where every one of these trees is, some kind of fruit tree would grow if properly planted and looked after.Again, to utilise Australia to it's full extent the whole world should be sought through for the best plants and trees of every kind, and only the very best grown, and those in situations and soil best adapted for them.One argument against Australia is that much of its surface is sandy, but experiments and developments in various countries show that the planting of marram grass, lupins, and other plants ties even the drifting sand together and gradually, through their decay, turns the sandy wastes into fertile soil. Besides, science can, in many other ways, utilise the elements in the air to enrich the soil.Australia's Mineral ResourcesIt has been objected that in the above epitome no mention is made of the great mineral wealth of Australia. The reason is that minerals, exceedingly useful as they are in the arts, are not absolutely necessary (with the exception perhaps of iron) to the feeding, clothing, and housing of mankind. Vast multitudes have lived without them; but it may be remarked that Australia is a country very rich in minerals; some hold it the richest in the world. It possesses immense deposits of iron not yet utilised, and the most extensive gold-fields yet discovered. Australia and Tasmania have, according to the latest estimate of our Commonwealth Statistician, produced minerals to the value of £660,252,694—comprising in round numbers, Gold £474,000,000; Tin £24,000,000; and other kinds £8,000,000. The bulk of the above has been produced during the last 60 years, in a population rising from about 300,000 to 4,000,000 and it forecasts how vast the mineral-producing future of Australia is likely to be. Altogether Australia is a country as highly favoured by nature as any other of equal size upon earth, for the bountiful production of useful animals, vegetables, minerals, and men.The Best Country On Earth—Unknown Australia"'If we Australians took as much trouble to prepare for our summer as the Canadians take to forestall their winter, Australia would be THE MOST PROSPEROUS COUNTRY ON EARTH.'The speaker was the Rev. A. R. Edgar, head of the Central Mission, Melbourne."'After circling the globe, then, you are still satisfied that Australia is not a bad country to live in?'"'The best,' said Mr Edgar, emphatically. 'I have no hesitation in saying that Canada and America are not to be compared with Australia. Unfortunately, England doesn't know it. Australia herself doesn't half realise it, and as for America and Canada, they haven't the remotest ghost of a notion of it. In England they learn with regrettable slowness, and their knowledge is scanty indeed; but across the Atlantic the ignorance is deplorable. "Australia?" says the Canadian. "Oh yes! Let's see, that's the place where it's always droughty—yes, yes, to be sure, the place where y' can't get a drink of water." He laughs at the idea of Australia producing as much wool and wheat as Canada, and bluntly tells you there's no country on the face of the planet can grow wheat and wool like his. But the fact is, there isn't a bit of territory fit to compare with the Western District of Victoria, for example, and conditions are infinitely harder for the agriculturist than in Australia. Canada's western district is icebound in winter, and her eastern lands are strewn over with great boulders, between which the plough works laboriously in and out'."—From the "New Idea."I often feel for the dweller in Canada; for notwithstanding his beautiful spring and autumn he has six months of ice and snow and freezing winds, and I feel selfishly grateful that my lot is cast in more genial Australia.Let us well ponder Mr. Edgar's concise and forcible statement: "If we Australians took as much trouble to prepare for our summer as the Canadians take to forestall their winter, Australia would be the most prosperous country on earth."This is quite true. The Canadian must thoughtfully and rationally prepare for his winter, or he would freeze and starve. We have no frigid climate to prepare against, but we have possible drought, and our first and greatest consideration should be the conservation of water for irrigation.This water conservation is exceedingly important thing. Men do not think, and the waste is enormous. When the rain falls it runs into the gully, from the gully to the creek, from the creek to the river, from the river into the sea; and then in the dry season water is deplorably scarce.I once asked a young squatter from the New South Wales side of the Murray "Have you got a garden?" He answered: "No: it is too dry up our way!" I said, "How do you get water for domestic purposes?" He answered, "We catch it off the roof; we catch it in 11 tanks and are never out of a supply." I asked, "How large an area have all your roofs put together?" He answered, "I think about 20 feet by 100 feet." This would be about a twentieth of an acre. Now just reflect! One acre of rainfall would supply, if caught, 20 establishments like that squatter's home, for the rain would fall fairly alike over that part of the country. A rainfall of 30 inches over an acre of ground measures about 680,000 gallons and weighs about 3000 tons, the bulk of which is allowed to run away every year!A gentleman said to me the other day, "Since the water was brought to Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie, under Sir John Forrest's great scheme, they have very beautiful gardens right along the line of supply. Wherever the water touches the land the vegetation is splendid, and, what is more, the evaporation is bringing heavier rainfall." Of course, wherever cultivation and irrigation are carried on, more evaporation takes place, and, in most cases, causes additional rainfall.When I affirmed that Australia was capable of supporting 400 millions of people I did not mean Australia as we now have it, but as it might be, and probably will be, when water is carefully conserved and its soil scientifically irrigated and cultivated.E.W. Cole

Australia Is The Best Country On Earth

Australia a Grand Country

I think that Australia, for it's size, is, all-round, the best country in the world. It's climate is pleasant and health-giving. It has no desolating blizzards, no frost bites, and few sunstrokes. In edible produce, for both size and quality, it stands very high, if not the highest. I have been in many lands, but never saw a country supply such a variety of products as Australia does—potatoes, onions, cabbages, carrots, peas, beans and scores of other vegetables in abundance. In fruits it produces apples, pears, plums, peaches, oranges, grapes, and Northern Australia also produces all the tropical fruits in abundance wherever cultivated. In corn Australia produces superior wheat, oats, barley, maize and all other kinds in abundance, especially when scientifically irrigated. As a milk, butter and meat country, it is one of the best in the world. It is the largest and best wool-producing country in the world. It contains the largest area in the world especially suitable for growing cotton, the most extensively-used clothing material. Flowers grow luxuriantly and beautifully whenever cultivated and watered. A few years ago when writing on the "White Australia" question, I stated that with high culture, water irrigation, and scientific irrigation, Australia was capable of supporting 400 millions of inhabitants. A high literary authority, in reviewing the book, remarked that this seemed like a "gross exaggeration"; but probably he had not thought so much on the subject as I had.

I will here concisely state the principle reasons for my opinion. The great want of Australia, to make it amazingly fruitful, is the complete conservation of water and it's scientific application to the soil. Water, warmth, and soil will grow anything in Australia, if rationally managed. Australia has abundance of water now running to waste. On thousands of house-roofs water enough is caught for the domestic use of the respective families. Over large areas of the country there are 30 inches of rainfall, and the average rainfall over vast areas is 24 inches, and could be made much greater by cultivation. Four-fifths of this water now runs to waste. Again surface-parched Australia has vast areas of underground water which only require to be tapped and brought to the surface, to irrigate and fertilise the soil.

Australia is also a country where timber grows well and fast, if planted in trenched ground and slightly irrigated. Hundreds of straight trees can be grown upon an acre of land if they are first planted thickly and some gradually thinned out. Many kinds of trees will grow upon very poor soil if they are properly planted and irrigated, as the bulk of their sustenance is derived from the air. One more remark about trees and their possibilities as food providers. Wherever any kind of tree will grow some kind of fruit tree will grow. There are hundreds of millions of gum trees growing in Australia. Where every one of these trees is, some kind of fruit tree would grow if properly planted and looked after.

Again, to utilise Australia to it's full extent the whole world should be sought through for the best plants and trees of every kind, and only the very best grown, and those in situations and soil best adapted for them.

One argument against Australia is that much of its surface is sandy, but experiments and developments in various countries show that the planting of marram grass, lupins, and other plants ties even the drifting sand together and gradually, through their decay, turns the sandy wastes into fertile soil. Besides, science can, in many other ways, utilise the elements in the air to enrich the soil.

Australia's Mineral Resources

It has been objected that in the above epitome no mention is made of the great mineral wealth of Australia. The reason is that minerals, exceedingly useful as they are in the arts, are not absolutely necessary (with the exception perhaps of iron) to the feeding, clothing, and housing of mankind. Vast multitudes have lived without them; but it may be remarked that Australia is a country very rich in minerals; some hold it the richest in the world. It possesses immense deposits of iron not yet utilised, and the most extensive gold-fields yet discovered. Australia and Tasmania have, according to the latest estimate of our Commonwealth Statistician, produced minerals to the value of £660,252,694—comprising in round numbers, Gold £474,000,000; Tin £24,000,000; and other kinds £8,000,000. The bulk of the above has been produced during the last 60 years, in a population rising from about 300,000 to 4,000,000 and it forecasts how vast the mineral-producing future of Australia is likely to be. Altogether Australia is a country as highly favoured by nature as any other of equal size upon earth, for the bountiful production of useful animals, vegetables, minerals, and men.

The Best Country On Earth—Unknown Australia

"'If we Australians took as much trouble to prepare for our summer as the Canadians take to forestall their winter, Australia would be THE MOST PROSPEROUS COUNTRY ON EARTH.'

The speaker was the Rev. A. R. Edgar, head of the Central Mission, Melbourne.

"'After circling the globe, then, you are still satisfied that Australia is not a bad country to live in?'

"'The best,' said Mr Edgar, emphatically. 'I have no hesitation in saying that Canada and America are not to be compared with Australia. Unfortunately, England doesn't know it. Australia herself doesn't half realise it, and as for America and Canada, they haven't the remotest ghost of a notion of it. In England they learn with regrettable slowness, and their knowledge is scanty indeed; but across the Atlantic the ignorance is deplorable. "Australia?" says the Canadian. "Oh yes! Let's see, that's the place where it's always droughty—yes, yes, to be sure, the place where y' can't get a drink of water." He laughs at the idea of Australia producing as much wool and wheat as Canada, and bluntly tells you there's no country on the face of the planet can grow wheat and wool like his. But the fact is, there isn't a bit of territory fit to compare with the Western District of Victoria, for example, and conditions are infinitely harder for the agriculturist than in Australia. Canada's western district is icebound in winter, and her eastern lands are strewn over with great boulders, between which the plough works laboriously in and out'."—From the "New Idea."

I often feel for the dweller in Canada; for notwithstanding his beautiful spring and autumn he has six months of ice and snow and freezing winds, and I feel selfishly grateful that my lot is cast in more genial Australia.

Let us well ponder Mr. Edgar's concise and forcible statement: "If we Australians took as much trouble to prepare for our summer as the Canadians take to forestall their winter, Australia would be the most prosperous country on earth."

This is quite true. The Canadian must thoughtfully and rationally prepare for his winter, or he would freeze and starve. We have no frigid climate to prepare against, but we have possible drought, and our first and greatest consideration should be the conservation of water for irrigation.

This water conservation is exceedingly important thing. Men do not think, and the waste is enormous. When the rain falls it runs into the gully, from the gully to the creek, from the creek to the river, from the river into the sea; and then in the dry season water is deplorably scarce.

I once asked a young squatter from the New South Wales side of the Murray "Have you got a garden?" He answered: "No: it is too dry up our way!" I said, "How do you get water for domestic purposes?" He answered, "We catch it off the roof; we catch it in 11 tanks and are never out of a supply." I asked, "How large an area have all your roofs put together?" He answered, "I think about 20 feet by 100 feet." This would be about a twentieth of an acre. Now just reflect! One acre of rainfall would supply, if caught, 20 establishments like that squatter's home, for the rain would fall fairly alike over that part of the country. A rainfall of 30 inches over an acre of ground measures about 680,000 gallons and weighs about 3000 tons, the bulk of which is allowed to run away every year!

A gentleman said to me the other day, "Since the water was brought to Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie, under Sir John Forrest's great scheme, they have very beautiful gardens right along the line of supply. Wherever the water touches the land the vegetation is splendid, and, what is more, the evaporation is bringing heavier rainfall." Of course, wherever cultivation and irrigation are carried on, more evaporation takes place, and, in most cases, causes additional rainfall.

When I affirmed that Australia was capable of supporting 400 millions of people I did not mean Australia as we now have it, but as it might be, and probably will be, when water is carefully conserved and its soil scientifically irrigated and cultivated.

E.W. Cole

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I Want Cole's Funny Picture Book.

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This Is The Funniest Picture Book In The World For ChildrenIf you search through the World you will not get a book that will so please a child, if you pay £100 or even £1000 for it. To parents, Grandparents, Uncles, Aunts, and Friends—Every Good Child should be given one of these Books for being Good. Every Bad Child should be given one to try to make it Good.BABY RHYMESBaby Going to Bed4Baby, Getting up5This Pig Went to Market6Baby Riding6Naughty Baby7LITTLE CHILDREN'S STORIESTom Thumb's Alphabet8Sing a Song-a-Sixpence8A Apple Pie8Captain Duck8Hey-Diddle-Diddle9GIRL LANDCry-Baby Belle10A Naughty Little Girl10Paulina Pry10Tearful Annie10Hattie's Birthday11Youth and Age11A Lost Child11Little Mary11Girl and Angel11Girl Who Wouldn't go to Bed12Girl That Beat Her Sister12The Sulky Girl12Girl Who Sucked Her Fingers12The Greedy Little Girl12Girl Who Played With Fire12The Vulgar Little Lady12Peggy Won't13The Wonderful Shadows13Little Bo-Peep14Pammy Was A Pretty Girl14The Little Husband14I'm Governess14Meddlesome Matty15Girl Who Spilled the Ink15Girl Who Was Always Tasting15Sally the Lazy Girl15Girl Who Wouldn't Comb Her Hair15The Nasty Cross Girls15Little Red Riding Hood16I'm Grandmama16The Babes in the Wood16Cinderella17The Three Bears17Bluebeard17My Girl18My Little Daughter's Shoes18The Old Cradle18A Little Goose18Girls19Girls Names19Vain Sarah19Several Kinds of Girls19Jumping Jennie20I Don't Care20Little Miss Meddlesome20Careless Matilda20Forty Little School Girls21Funny Monkeys21Tangle Pate22A Careless Girl22The Naughty Girl22Mopy Maria22Disobedient May22Sluttishness22Jane Who Bit Her Nails22Poking Fun22The Pin23Stupid Jane23Pouting Polly23Untidy Emily23Maidenhood24Girls That Are in Demand24Girls' Names24Name of Kate24Girl-Scolding Machine25Jenny Lee26Work Before Play26Lucy Grey26Mary Had a Little Lamb26We Are Seven27The poor But Blind Girl27Grace Darling27The Tidy Girl27Ruby Cole28BOY LANDVally Cole29Tom The Piper's Son30House That Jack Built31Simple Simon31Ten Little Niggers31Jack the Giant Killer32Jack and the Beanstalk32Hop-o-my-Thumb33Tom Thumb33Naughty Boys34Dirty Jack35Mischievous Fingers35Boy Stealing Apples35Playing With Fire35Wicked Willie36Rude, Bad, Naughty Boy36Little Chinky Chow37That Nice Boy38A Wicked Joking Boy38Jack the Glutton39Tom the Dainty Boy39A birds Nest Robber39A Cruel Boy39Boy Whipping Machine40-41DOLLY LANDPuss's Doll42Pretty Doll42Dolly and I43Dolly's Broken Arm43Polly and Her Dolly43Singing to Dolly44My Dolly44Dolly's Asleep44Lost Dolly45Talking To Dolly45Darling Dolly45Ten Little Dollies46Washing-Day Troubles47New Tea Things47Doll Dress Making48Dolly Town48The Lost Doll48Dolly's Counterpane48Sewing For Dolly48My Little Doll Rose48The Wooden Doll48Buy My Dolls48Dolly's Doctor49Dolly's Broken Nose49The Dead Dolly49The Soldier Dolly49Christening Dolly50Maggie's Talk to Dolly50Minnie's Talk to Dolly50My Dolly50Dolly's Wedding50Grandmamma's Visit51Lucy's Dolls51The Doll Show52A Doll's Adventures53Story of a Doll53I'm Homesick Dolly Dear54A Thousand Names ForDollies and Babies55,56,57NAUGHTINESS LANDGood Mamma58How They Made Up58Cross Patch58Sulky Sarah58A New Year's Gift59Angry Words59Love One Another59Anger60Girl That Beat Her Sister60Little Dick Snappy60Where Do You Live61Govern Your Temper61The Ragged Girl's Sunday62Foolish Fanny62Pride63Finery63A Fop63Greedy Ned64Greedy Girl64Greedy Richard64Story Of an Apple64The Plum Cake65The Glutton65Hoggish Henry65Selfishness65Truthful Dottie66False Alarms66Girl That Told A Lie66Idle Mary67Lazy Sal67The Work Bag67The Two Gardens67Doing Nothing67Lazy Sam68The Beggar Man68Lazyland68The Lazy Boy69The Sluggard69Idle Dicky and the Goat69Come and Go69The Cruel Boy70Story of Cruel Fred70The Worm70No One Will See Me71Boy and His Mother71Boys and the Apple Tree72Thou Shalt Not Steal72The Thief72The Thieves' Ladder73SANTA CLAUS LANDSanta Claus Land74A Visit From St. Nicholas75What Santa Claus Brings75Little Mary75Christmas75Christmas Eve Adventure76Little Bennie76Old Santa Claus77Night Before Christmas77Annie and Willie's Prayer78Budd's Stocking79Christmas Morning79Nellie And Santa Claus80Hang Up Baby's Stocking80PLAY LANDRabbit on the Wall81Little Romp81Tired of Play82The Lost Playmate82In The Toy Shop83Playing Store83Neat Little Clara83Hide and Seek83Little Sailors84Come Out to Play84Mud Pies84Hay Making84Johnny the Stout85Training Time86Playtime87Romping87Nurse's Song87Swinging88Skating88The skipping Rope88The Baby's Debut89READING LANDReading90Mrs Grammar's Ball90Grammar in Rhyme90Reading Land91WRITING LANDLittle Flo's Letter92The First Letter92Baby's Letter to Uncle92Nell's Letter92Two Letters92Going to Write to Papa93Papa's Letter93Polly's Letter to Ben94The Sunday Fisherman95Essay on Pictures96DRAWING LANDThe New Slate97Learning to Draw98A Lesson in Drawing99OLD MEN TALESOld Man and His Wife100John Ball Shot Them All100Funny Old Man100Strange Men100Jack Sprat101Cross Old Man101Very Funny Men101Utter Nonsense102History Of John Gilpin103Australian Native Choir104OLD WOMEN TALESWoman Who Lived in a Shoe106Mother Goose107Old Women of Stepney107Funny Old Women108Old Woman Who WentUp in a Basket108Twenty-six Funny Women109TRAVELLING LANDForty Ways of Travelling110-113Flying Machines114-117NAME LANDBoys' Names118Girls' Names119GAME LANDCole's Game of Hatsand Bonnets120-123Riddles and Catches124-127Picture Puzzles128-143Shadows on the Wall144Deaf and Dumb Alphabet145Language of Flowers146Kindness to Animals147Funny Australian Natives148-149PUSSY LANDMy Pussy150Pussy-Cat and Mousey150Puss and the Monkey150Mary's Puss Drowned150Dame Trot's Puss151Daddy Hubbard's Cat152Story of a Little Mouse153Tom, Puss, and the Rats154Puss in Boots155Monkey and the Cats155Dick Whittington155More Pussy Land156The White Kitten157Little Pussy158Puss and the Crab158Puss in the Corner159Tabby159Old Puss159Dead Kitten160My Own Puss161Putting Kitty to Bed161DOGGY LANDMother Hubbard and Dog162Puss and Rover163No Breakfast for Growler163Poor Old Tray163GOAT LANDO'Grady's Goat164The Goat and the Swing164MONKEY LANDMeddlesome Jacko165A Fruitless Sorrow165GEE-GEE LANDThe Wonderful Horse166The Horse166Good Dobbin166Horse Sentenced to Die167The Arab and His Horse167Farmer John168DONKEY LANDThe Cottager's Donkey169Old Jack the Donkey169Poor Donkey's Epitaph169MOO-MOO LANDThe Cow and the Ass170The Cowboy's Song171That Calf171BA-BA LANDThe Lost Lamb172The Pet Lamb172-173PIGGY LANDThe Pig is a Gentleman174Five Little Pigs174The Self-willed pig174Three Naughty Pigs175The Spectre Pig175The Chinese Pig176Dame Crump and Her Pig176Old Woman and Her Pig177The Three Little Pigs177BUNNY LANDDisobedient Bunny178The Wild Rabbits178The Pet Rabbit178The Little Hare179The Poor Hunted Hare179Epitaph on a Hare179RAT LANDPied Piper of Hamelin180Wicked Bishop Hatto181MOUSEY LANDThe Three Mice182The Foolish Mouse182Run, Mousey, Run!182The Gingerbread Cat182A Clever Mother Mouse183The Mouse's Call183The Foolish Mouse183FROGGY LANDThe Foolish Frogs184Marriage of Mr. Froggie184Frogs at School184Frog That Went a Wooing185Mixed Animal Land186-187The Squirrel188Wonderful Bird Nests189Cole's Poems on Books190COMIC ADVERTISERSerious Sambo191Laughter as a Medicine191Man Made to Laugh191Josh Billings' Prayer191Fun Better Than Physic192Fun About Music193Going to Coles' BookArcade194-195Wonderful Sea Serpent196Funny, Foolish andUseful Fashions197-201Boy Smoking202-203Narcotics and Intoxicants204Pipes of the World205

This Is The Funniest Picture Book In The World For Children

If you search through the World you will not get a book that will so please a child, if you pay £100 or even £1000 for it. To parents, Grandparents, Uncles, Aunts, and Friends—Every Good Child should be given one of these Books for being Good. Every Bad Child should be given one to try to make it Good.

READER—There are only 365 pieces mentioned in this index, but the Book contains 2,000 pieces and pictures, large and small. It is a complete cyclopoedia of child-lore, and first-class kindergarten book—to amuse and teach at the same time. No child's book ever published has been, nor is now, so great a favourite as this one.

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Tired And Going To Bed.

A Piece of Poetry for Mother and Father to Read

I suppose if all the children,Who have lived through ages long,Were collected and inspectedThey would make a wondrous throng.Oh the babble of the Babel!Oh, the flutter and the fuss;To begin with Cain and Abel,And to finish up with us!Some have never laughed nor spoken,Never used their rosy feet;Some have even flown to heaven,Ere they knew that earth was sweet.And indeed, I wonder whether,If we reckon every birth,And bring such a flock together,There is room for them on earth.Think of all the men and womenWho are now and who have been;Every nation since creationThat this world of ours has seen.And of all of them not anyBut was once a baby small;While of children, oh, how manyNever have grown up at all.

Oh the babble of the Babel!Oh, the flutter and the fuss;To begin with Cain and Abel,And to finish up with us!

Some have never laughed nor spoken,Never used their rosy feet;Some have even flown to heaven,Ere they knew that earth was sweet.

And indeed, I wonder whether,If we reckon every birth,And bring such a flock together,There is room for them on earth.

Think of all the men and womenWho are now and who have been;Every nation since creationThat this world of ours has seen.

And of all of them not anyBut was once a baby small;While of children, oh, how manyNever have grown up at all.

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Getting Up As Happy As Larks.

Who will wash their smiling faces?Who their saucy ears will box?Who will dress them and caress them?Who will darn their little socks?Where are arms enough to hold them?Hands to pat each smiling head?Who will praise them? who will scold them?Who will pack them off to bed?Little happy Christian children,Little savage children too,In all stages of all ages,That our planet ever knew;Little princes and princesses,Little beggars, wan and faint—Some in very handsome dresses,Naked some, bedaubed with paint.Only think of the confusionSuch a motley crowd would make;And the clatter of their chatter,And the things that they won't breakOh the babble of the Babel!Oh, the flutter and the fuss;To begin with Cain and Abel,And to finish up with us!

Where are arms enough to hold them?Hands to pat each smiling head?Who will praise them? who will scold them?Who will pack them off to bed?

Little happy Christian children,Little savage children too,In all stages of all ages,That our planet ever knew;

Little princes and princesses,Little beggars, wan and faint—Some in very handsome dresses,Naked some, bedaubed with paint.

Only think of the confusionSuch a motley crowd would make;And the clatter of their chatter,And the things that they won't break

Oh the babble of the Babel!Oh, the flutter and the fuss;To begin with Cain and Abel,And to finish up with us!

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Children's RhymesThis Pig Went To Market.

Children's Rhymes

1. This pig went to market:2. This pig stayed at home:3. This pig had meat:4. This pig had none:5. And this pig cried, "Wee, wee," all the way home.Game of Child's FeaturesHere sits the Lord Mayor! (forehead)Here sits his two men! (eyes)Here sits the cock! (right cheek)Here sits the hen! (left cheek)Here sit the little chickens! (tip of nose)Here they run in; (mouth)Chinchopper, chinchopper,Chinchopper, chin! (chuck the chin)Face GameRing the bell! (giving its hair a pull)Knock at the door! (tapping its forehead)Draw the latch! (pulling up it's nose)And walk in! (putting finger in mouth)Face Game(Eye) Bo Peeper! (Nose) Nose dreeper!(Chin) Chinchopper!(Teeth) White Lopper!(Mouth) little gap! (Tongue) and red rag!Game on the Toes1. Let us go to the wood, says this pig;2. What to do there? says that pig;3. Too look for my mother, says this pig;4. What to do with her? says that pig;5. Kiss her to death, says this pig.Going to MarketTo market, to market, to buy a fat pig;Home again, home again, jiggety-jig.To market, to market, to buy a fat hog;Home again, home again, joggety-jog.Baby RidingRide baby, ride, pretty baby shall ride,And have a little puppy-dog tied to her side.And a little pussy-cat tied to the other,And away she shall ride to see her grand-mother,To see her grandmother.Ride a Cock-HorseRide a cock-horse to banbury-cross,To see what Tommy can buy;A penny white loaf, a penny white cake,And a two-penny apple pie.Ride a cock-horse to banbury-cross,To see a young lady on a white horse,Rings on her fingers, and bells on her toes,And so she makes music wherever she goes.Baby RidingThis is the way the ladies ride;Tre, tre, tree,This is the way the ladies ride;Tre, tre, tree.This is the way the gentlemen ride;Gallop-a-gallop-a-trot!This is the way the gentlemen ride;Gallop-a-gallop-a-trot!This is the way the farmers ride;Hobbledy-hobbledy-hoy!This is the way the farmers ride;Hobbledy-hobbledy-hoy!Clap HandsClap hands, clap hands,Till father comes home;For father's got money,But mother's got none.When Dad Comes HomeYou shall have an apple,You shall have a plum,You shall have a rattle,When your dad comes home.Pat-A-CakePat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man!So I will, master, as fast as I can,Pat it, and prick it, and mark it with T,Put it in the oven for Tommy and me.Come, Butter, ComeChurn, butter, churn! come, butter, come!Peter stands at the gate,Waiting for a butter cake;Come, butter, come!Baby CryingWhen Jacky's a very good boy,He shall have cakes and a custard;But when he does nothing but cry,He shall have nothing but mustard.

Game of Child's Features

Here sits the Lord Mayor! (forehead)Here sits his two men! (eyes)Here sits the cock! (right cheek)Here sits the hen! (left cheek)Here sit the little chickens! (tip of nose)Here they run in; (mouth)Chinchopper, chinchopper,Chinchopper, chin! (chuck the chin)

Face Game

Ring the bell! (giving its hair a pull)Knock at the door! (tapping its forehead)Draw the latch! (pulling up it's nose)And walk in! (putting finger in mouth)

Face Game

(Eye) Bo Peeper! (Nose) Nose dreeper!(Chin) Chinchopper!(Teeth) White Lopper!(Mouth) little gap! (Tongue) and red rag!

Game on the Toes

1. Let us go to the wood, says this pig;2. What to do there? says that pig;3. Too look for my mother, says this pig;4. What to do with her? says that pig;5. Kiss her to death, says this pig.

Going to Market

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig;Home again, home again, jiggety-jig.To market, to market, to buy a fat hog;Home again, home again, joggety-jog.

Baby Riding

Ride baby, ride, pretty baby shall ride,And have a little puppy-dog tied to her side.And a little pussy-cat tied to the other,And away she shall ride to see her grand-mother,To see her grandmother.

Ride a Cock-Horse

Ride a cock-horse to banbury-cross,To see what Tommy can buy;A penny white loaf, a penny white cake,And a two-penny apple pie.Ride a cock-horse to banbury-cross,To see a young lady on a white horse,Rings on her fingers, and bells on her toes,And so she makes music wherever she goes.

Baby Riding

This is the way the ladies ride;Tre, tre, tree,This is the way the ladies ride;Tre, tre, tree.This is the way the gentlemen ride;Gallop-a-gallop-a-trot!This is the way the gentlemen ride;Gallop-a-gallop-a-trot!This is the way the farmers ride;Hobbledy-hobbledy-hoy!This is the way the farmers ride;Hobbledy-hobbledy-hoy!

Clap Hands

Clap hands, clap hands,Till father comes home;For father's got money,But mother's got none.

When Dad Comes Home

You shall have an apple,You shall have a plum,You shall have a rattle,When your dad comes home.

Pat-A-Cake

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man!So I will, master, as fast as I can,Pat it, and prick it, and mark it with T,Put it in the oven for Tommy and me.

Come, Butter, Come

Churn, butter, churn! come, butter, come!Peter stands at the gate,Waiting for a butter cake;Come, butter, come!

Baby Crying

When Jacky's a very good boy,He shall have cakes and a custard;But when he does nothing but cry,He shall have nothing but mustard.

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