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                THE JINGLE BOOK


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 The Tutor


  A tutor who tooted the flute
  Tried to teach two young tooters to toot.
    Said the two to the tutor,
    "Is it harder to toot, or
  To tutor two tooters to toot?"

 [Illustration]


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                THE JINGLE BOOK

                      BY
                 CAROLYN WELLS


                  Pictured by
                OLIVER HERFORD



                   New York
             THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
          LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
                     1901

             _All rights reserved_


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                COPYRIGHT, 1899,
           BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.


     Set up and electrotyped October, 1899.
     Reprinted November, 1899; June, 1901.


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                To Hilda's Child


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                    CONTENTS


     THE TUTOR             _Frontispiece_
                                 PAGE
     A SERIOUS QUESTION                1
     TWO OLD KINGS                     2
     A DAY DREAM                       5
     OUR CLUB                          7
     PUZZLED                           9
     AN INTERCEPTED VALENTINE         11
     A LONG-FELT WANT                 13
     THE MUSICAL CARP                 14
     THE INTELLIGENT HEN              15
     THE HAPPY HYENA                  17
     A GREAT LADY                     18
     OPULENT OLLIE                    20
     THE TWO BEARS                    21
     THE MACARONI MAN                 24
     THE 4.04 TRAIN                   29
     A VALUABLE GIFT                  30
     THE GRANDILOQUENT GOAT           32
     HOW THE CAT WAS BELLED           33
     TRIANGULAR TOMMY                 40
     A MODERN INVENTION               45
     AN APRIL JOKE                    46
     AN ALICE ALPHABET                48
     THE FUNNY KITTENS                57
     THE STRIKE OF THE FIREWORKS      60
     THE ARCH ARMADILLO               63
     A DREAM LESSON                   64
     THE RIVALS                       68
     THE NEW CUP                      70
     A PHOTOGRAPHIC FAILURE           71
     CHRISTMAS GIFTS                  73
     YOUNG AMERICA                    74
     A BICYCLE BUILT FOR TWO          75
     DOROTHY'S OPINION                77
     ROLY POLY ROY                    79
     MY BAROMETER                     85
     THE BUTTER BETTY BOUGHT          86
     A MARVEL                         87
     AN ALPHABET ZOO                  88
     FOUND WANTING                    94
     A TRAGIC TALE OF TEA             96
     THE ERRATIC RAT                  97
     THE TWO FRIENDS                  99
     THE SMILING SHARK               102
     THE MERCURY'S PLAINT            103
     THE PIRATE POODLE               105
     AN OLD LOVE                     107
     BOBBY'S POCKET                  109
     THE INSTRUCTIPHONE              112
     THE LAY OF THE LADY LORRAINE    115


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                The Jingle Book


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 A Serious Question


 [Illustration]

 A kitten went a-walking
   One morning in July,
 And idly fell a-talking
   With a great big butterfly.

 The kitten's tone was airy,
   The butterfly would scoff;
 When there came along a fairy
   Who whisked his wings right off.

 And then--for it is written
   Fairies can do such things--
 Upon the startled kitten
   She stuck the yellow wings.

 [Illustration]

 The kitten felt a quiver,
   She rose into the air,
 Then flew down to the river
   To view her image there.

 With fear her heart was smitten,
   And she began to cry,
 "Am I a butter-kitten?
   Or just a kitten-fly?"




 Two Old Kings


 [Illustration]

 Oh! the King of Kanoodledum
 And the King of Kanoodledee,
   They went to sea
   In a jigamaree--
 A full-rigged jigamaree.

 And one king couldn't steer,
 And the other, no more could he;
   So they both