...Such are " The Childe of Elle," " Catharine and Janrarie," " Co*, patric," " Willie's Lady," &c. " Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will roam." This fragment of a respectable little poem has soothed the slnmben of the German infant...

...away, lady-bird, or I may do you harm. If you come so near my pen, it may hurt one of your legs. " Lady-bird ! Lady-bird ! fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children alone ! " But it will not fly. It keeps round my pen as if it meant I should write none but loving...

...Heaven then, or the Sun, is where it dwells, its ' home.' Set side by side with this our English — ' Lady-bird ! Lady-bird ! Fly away home ! Your house is on fire, your children will burn ! ' Or the German — ' Mary-bug small ! Mary-bug wee ! To thy wings and away ! Hence must...

...and their supposed misfortunes affect deeply sensitive little hearts, while infantile accents lisp " Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home ; your house is on fire, your children are burned." They are distinguishable chiefly by the colors of and the spots upon their wing covers...

...away, lady-bird, or I may do you harm. If you come so near my pen, it may hurt one of your legs. " Lady-bird ! Lady-bird ! fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children alone ! " But it will not fly. It keeps round my pen as if it meant I should write none but loving...

...Heaven then, or the Sun, is where it dwells, its ' home.' Set side by side with this our English — ' Lady-bird ! Lady-bird ! Fly away home ! Your house is on fire, your children will burn ! ' Or the German — ' Mary-bug small ! Mary-bug wee ! To thy wings and away ! Hence must...

...devoted a chapter to tracing out the genealogies of the games and popular pastimes of his country. * " Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will roam.1* This fragment of a respectable little poem has soothed the slumbers of the German infant...

...Among English children, too, a remnant of such ancient folk-lore has been preserved in the song, " Lady-bird, lady-bird ! fly away home ! Your house is on fire; your children at home ! " The " house on fire " is the sunlit abode of Freia, " our lady." The " children at home,"...

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...the window, exclaiming, "Oh! it's a 'Judy Cow,' as nurse calls it. I know a rhyme about it too— * Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children are gone!'" "A Judy Cow!" cried her companion; " what a funny name! What has Judy to do with it ? We...