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Show A Quill Prom Mother Goose. All children delight in Mother Goose, especially in her song of "Sing a Song of Sixpence." Such a charming jumble of king and queen, and the early rising maid, who had her nose nipped off! Will it destroy ihe charm of the nursery rhyme to unvoting un-voting readers if 1 tell them that the verses a re very, very old. and are meant for a description of the day' The four-and-lwi niy blackbirds represent the twenty-four hours. The bottom of the pie is the world, while the top crust is the sky, that overarches over-arches it. The opening of the pie is th? daydawu. when the birds begin to sing, and surely such a sight is tit for a king. The king, who is represented as sitting in the parlor counting out his money, is the sun, while th? gold pieces t lint slip through his ringers as he counts them are the golden sunshine. The queen, who sits in the dark kitchen. i the moon, and the honey with which she regales herself is moonlight. The industrious maid, who is in the garden at work before her king the sun is risen, is day-dawn, day-dawn, nnd the clothes she hangs out are the clouds, while the bird, who so tragically ends the song by nipping off her nose, is the hour of sunrise. So we have ihe whole day. if not in a nutshell, in a pic. Goodsoii Gazette. |