Author : L. Frank Baum
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331629252
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (292 download)
Book Synopsis Mother Goose in Prose (Classic Reprint) by : L. Frank Baum
Download or read book Mother Goose in Prose (Classic Reprint) written by L. Frank Baum and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mother Goose in Prose Singularly enough, England's claim to the venerable old lady is of about the same date as Boston's. There lived in a town in Sussex, about the year 1704, dam. An old woman named Martha Gooch. She was a cap ital nurse, and in great demand to care for newly born babies; therefore, through long years of service as nurse, she came to be called Mother Gooch. This good woman had one peculiarity: she was accustomed to croon queer rhymes and Jingles over the cradles of her charges, and these rhymes seemed so senseless and silly to the people who overheard them that they began to call her Mother Goose, in derision, the term being derived from Queen Goosefoot, the mother of Charlemagne. The old nurse paid no attention to her critics, but continued to sing her rhymes as before; for, however much grown people might laugh at her, the children seemed to enjoy them very much, and not one of them was too peevish to be quieted and soothed by her verses. At one time Mistress Gooch was nursing a child of Mr. Ronald Barclay, a physician residing in the town, and he noticed the rhymes she sang and became interested in them. In time he wrote them all down and made a book of them, which it is said was printed by John Worthington 86 Son in the Strand, London, in 1712, under the name of Ye Melodious Rhymes of Mother Goofe. But even this story of Martha Gooch is based upon very meager and unsatisfactory evidence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
