...lady-bug, ladfr clock, lady-cow, lady-fly, and golden knob. One of the oddest of the child-rimes was:— Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home. Your house is on fire and your children alone, All burned but one, And that is Brown Betty that site in the sun. MC L New York. PROCESS FOK...

...fly from a spider's net, or warming a fainting bee in her hand, or crying, " Lady bird ! lady bird ! fly away home ! Your house is on fire; and your children will bum" — in perfect belief that the lady bird would so fly away home — had made half a dozen dragging...

...It is probably the following, which, however, has a modern appearance : — , " Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, and your children will burn." Moor gives a Suffolk version of this in an orthography intended to convey the inexpressible vernacular...

...What is the meaning," asked Mary, " of the nursery rhyme about the ladybird? Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, and your children will burn ?" Indeed, I cannot tell you. There are different versions of the old song. One runs thus : Lady-bird,...

...children, who ketch them in their hands, and then sing to them the old nursery rime : " Lady bug, lady bug, fly away home, Your house is on fire, and your children will roam." Let them go, and sure enough the lady bug duz put for home in a grate hurry. The lady bug iz...

...children, who ketch them in their hands and then sing to them the old nursery rime' " Lady bug, lady bug, fly away home, Your house is on fire, and your children will roam.' Let thom go, and sure enough the lady bug duz put fo* home in a grate hurry. The lady bug iz...

...Ope your winsjs and fly away." In Lancashire, too, the children say : — ' ' Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home ; Your house is on fire and your children will burn." And in Yorkshire there is another version : — " Cusha-coo-lady, fly away home ; Thy house is a-fire...

...so full of glee, Held up her dimpled finger, and clear and loud called she : " Lady bug, lady bug, fly away home ! Your house is on fire, and your children will burn I " Off flew that little mother in terror wild and dread Across the hill and grassy glade and field of...

...full of glee, Held up her dimpled finger, and clear and loud called she : " Lady bug, lady bug, ßy away home ! Your house is on fire, and your children will burn/" Off flew that little mother in terror wild and dread Across the hill and grassy glade and field of...

...sharper than the rest, that even made for a moment a light against the sky. "Lady Bird, Lady Bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, and your children will burn," she sang to herself as she rowed across the bay, with her back to the place she was going to, as is...