Mother Goose for Grownups

by Guy Wetmore Carryl

Contents

• To Constance
• The Admirable Assertiveness of Jilted Jack
• The Blatant Brutality of Little Bow Peep
• The Commendable Castigation of Old Mother Hubbard
• The Discouraging Discovery of Little Jack Horner
• The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet
• The Fearful Finale of the Irascible Mouse
• The Gastronomic Guile of Simple Simon
• The Harmonious Heedlessness of Little Boy Blue
• The Inexcusable Improbity of Tom, the Piper's Son
• The Judicious Judgment of Quite Contrary Mary
• The Linguistic Languor of Charles Augustus Sprague
• The Mysterious Misapprehension Concerning a Man in Our Town
• The Opportune Overthrow of Humpty Dumpty
• The Preposterous Performance of an Old Lady of Banbury
• The Quixotic Quest of Three Blind Mice
• The Remarkable Regimen of the Sprat Family
• The Singular Sangfroid of Baby Bunting
• The Touching Tenderness of King Karl the First
• The Unusual Ubiquity of the Inquisitive Gander