Week 11: Reading Diary A: British Tales

British Nursery Rhymes

 

Tales:

·      There’s a man in the moon

·      Wanted to know which way Norwich was

·      He headed south then burn this mouth of some soup

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·      Two children were kidnapped on a summer day and left in the woods

·      When night came, they didn’t know what to do so they cried then died

·      Red robins spread strawberry leaves all over them and sang…

·      “Poor babes in the wood! Poor babes in the wood! And don’t you remember the babes in the wood?”

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·      mean crooked man that went a mile to find a sixpence

·      bought a cat and caught a mouse

·      all lived together in a house

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·      simon met a made who made pie

·      simon wanted to taste it

·      pieman wanted to see his money but he didn’t have any

·      so he went fishing to catch a whale but ended up with nothing

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·      story about jack and nory and the story has just begun

·      then a story about jack and his brother and now his story is done

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·      there was a man that was robbed

·      climbed up the chimney and they thought they had him

·      he went down the other side and they couldn’t find him

·      ran 14 miles in 15 days

·      and never went back

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·      lion and unicorn fought

·      lion beat the unicorn and wanted everyone to know

·      got white bread, brown bread, and plum-cake then sent them away

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·      fat man who lvied in Bombay was smoking

·      a snipe bird flew up his pipe and killed him

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·      the piper’s son named Tom stole a pig and ran

·      he ate the pig and tom was tired so he roared down the street

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·      there was a little man with a little gun with lead bullets

·      he went to the creek and saw a duck and shot it

·      he took his home to his wife and cooked him

·      roasted the duck he shot

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·      mother goose was old and she went on a fly

·      she flew very well

·      had a house made of wood with an owl at the door

·      her son jack was very average

·      sent him to the market to buy a goose

·      goose and gander became good friends. They ate or swam

·      goose laid a golden egg

·      mother was proud for the first time

·      sold it to a jew that jipped him

·      but he found a woman that was happy, fair, and sweet

·      the jew and squire were mean to Jack

·      old mother goose came in and turned her son into a harlequin

·      turned his woman into a sweet columbine

·      egg was thrown in the sea but jack jumped in and got it

·      jew got the goose to make more money

·      jack’s mother dove in and caught the goose and took it back and went to the moon

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