Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes

Appley Dapply's
Nursery Rhymes

BY
BEATRIX POTTER
THE ORIGINAL AND AUTHORIZED EDITION

F. WARNE & C^O.

APPLEY DAPPLY'S
NURSERY RHYMES

BY
BEATRIX POTTER

Author of
"The Tale of Peter Rabbit," etc.

FREDERICK WARNE

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The illustration on page 26 is the original picture which appeared in the first edition of this book, and for which on alternative was later substituted.

FREDERICK WARNE

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First published 1917
This edition with new reproductions first published 1987
This impression 1989

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APPLEY DAPPLY, a little brown mouse,
Goes to the cupboard in somebody's house.

IN somebody's cupboard
⁠There's everything nice,
⁠Cake, cheese, jam, biscuits,
⁠—All charming for mice!

APPLEY DAPPLY has little sharp eyes,
And Appley Dapply is so fond of pies!

NOW who is this knocking
⁠at Cottontail's door?
Tap tappit! Tap tappit!
⁠She's heard it before?

AND when she peeps out
⁠there is nobody there,
But a present of carrots
⁠⁠put down on the stair.

HARK! I hear it again!
⁠Tap, tap, tappit! Tap tappit!
Why—I really believe it's a little black rabbit!

OLD Mr. Pricklepin
⁠has never a cushion to
⁠stick his pins in,
His nose is black and his
⁠beard is gray,
And he lives in an ash stump
⁠over the way.

YOU know the old woman
⁠who lived in a shoe?
And had so many children
⁠She didn't know what to do?

I THINK if she lived in
⁠a little shoe-house—
That little old woman was
⁠surely a mouse!

DIGGORY DIGGORY DELVET!
⁠A little old man in black velvet;
He digs and he delves—
You can see for yourselves
⁠The mounds dug by Diggory Delvet.

GRAVY and potatoes
⁠In a good brown pot—
Put them in the oven,
⁠and serve them very hot!

THERE once was an amiable guinea-pig,
Who brushed back his hair like a periwig—

HE wore a sweet tie,
⁠As blue as the sky—

AND his whiskers and buttons
⁠Were very big.

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