Bent County register., 1888-09-15
Origin of Some Nursery rhymes.

very old story. Thousands of years ago it
was told to boys and girls. The original
read that an eagle stole the slipper OF u
very pretty Egyptian lady and bore it off.
The eagle dropped it, and some one carried
it to the King who made it known all over
the kingdom that he would marry the lady
whose tiny foot it would fit. And so Gin
derella, the cinder-girl, became Queen. In
France, Germany and this country the story
has taken several shapes, and has already
been favorite.
Little Jack Horncr' has the following
history: In England, in the reign of Henry
VIII, there lived MIR. Horner. Henry,
the King, wished to tear down all the line
monasteries and abbeys OF England, sell
their lands and pocket the money. This
Mr.. Horner was butler, or something, TO
an old abbot who thought he would gain
favor with Henry by giving him twelve OF
his very best and richest monasteries. So
the abbot sent deeds of them to the King
by this John Horner. But Horner thought,
as he sat in the corner" OF the carriage on
his way to the King, that he would see
what all these great papers which he was
carrying meant. "He put in his thumb and
pulled out a PLUM. e., he opened and
read the deeds, put the one for the largest
piece of Land in his own pocket, gave the
rest to the King at London, and came home
and told his master that Henry VIII, for
his fidelity, had made him present ofone
Of the largest tracts OF land.
Blue Beard" too, is very old. He is
supposed to be Giles Delaval, Lord of Rails,
and was Marshal of France in 1929.
"Jack, the Giant-killer," came from India.
He breaks forth in all sorts of doings all
over the story-books of the young. And
so of "Jack and the Bean-stalk"
Babes in tine Woods" is a very touching
story. i think the origin of this may be
considered a very, very old ballad, which
tells of Richard III. numbering his own
dear little nephews.
The story Of Little Red Riding-Hood"
is found in the German, but not exactly us
we tell it in English.
The Germans have a great variety of
yenng-folk-lore, or stories for little ones.
Mother Goose" was n real person. She
lived in Boston. Her daughter Elizabeth
married the printer, Tom Fleet, who
gathered up the nursery melodies of his
mother-in-law and published them
must now tell you the meaning of an
old nursery rhyme: "Four and twenty
blackbirds made into pie" are the four
and-twenty hours of the day. The "pie"
is the space between the earth and the sky
the aat-looking ground being the bottom
crust, the birds in between, and the sky
being the concave top crust. "When the
pie was opened" j. G., when day began to
break. "The birds began to sing" i.e.. the
hours to begin merrily. The king in the
parlor counting out money!" the king" is
the sun, the monarch of the day. There
he is enthroned in the sky. He is said to
he counting out money, because the sun
shine is gsid-color see how he counts it
out" aings it about him, the beautiful
golden sunshine. "The queen upstairs
eating bread and honey" Ofcourse, ifthe
king is the sun, the queen is the moon.
"The maid in the garden, hanging out
clothes" The maid" is Aurora, the god
dess, not of the day, but of the dawn. Now
"up jumped a little bird and nipped of
her nose" The little bird who did this
ungallant thing is, of course, the first houl
Of the day, for Aurora, or dawn, disappears
IS soon US the king, or sun, arises
People often complain CT had times
from natural tendency TO growl, Int g
Georgia darlsey the other day said: .I1eh-
ber seed such times since was born. Work
all day and steal all night. and blessid if
can hardly make a libbin."
SMALL SLIGHTs.-It is only the petit,
mind thatis continually looking for slights
True greatness shows itself in ignoring or
quickly forgetting personal injuries, wher
meaner natures would be kept in unrest
by them. The less of man one is, the
more he makes of an injury or an insult.
The Lore of a man he is, the less he is dis
turbed by what others say or do against
him without cause.
The introduction of magnets into aT.
.hC sreat Touring mills has peen 4 reve-
latIon TO the millers who compla:ned Of
wire in wnear. Not only have the mag
nets captured all the stray pieces Of iron
bands, an9 thus removed the last objec-
ton urged against wire-bindiag haryesf-
ers, but they have. revealed the startling
lact that, of the scraps of iron and steel
with wheat, fully one-halfare something
besides pieces of wire. and of such q M
ture as TO be even more dangerous to