A Diller, a dollar

A ten a'clock scholar, 

What makes you come so soon? 

You used to come at ten o'clock, 

But now you come at noon.

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp.Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 31. No. CX

A DILLER, a dollar,

   A ten o'clock scholar,

What makes you come so soon?

   You used to come at ten o'clock,

And now you come at noon.

Old Nurse's Book: Of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties. Ed. and Illus. by Charles H. Bennett. London, England: Griffith and Farran, 1857. [Facsimile edition reproduced from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. Toronto Public Library by Holp Shuppan, Publishers, Tokyo 1981.] p.3.

   A diller, a dollar,

   A ten o'clock scholar,

What makes you come so soon?

   You used to come at ten o'clock,

And now you are come at noon.

Baring-Gould, Sabine. A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes. Illus. by Members of the Birmingham Art School under the direction of A. J. Gaskin. London, England: Methuen, 1895, p. 126. No. XLIII in Nursery Jingles Section

A DILLER, a dollar,

   A ten o'clock scholar,

What makes you come so soon?

   You used to come at ten o'clock,

And now you come at noon.

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p. 49.

A diller, a dollar,

A ten o'clock scholar,

What makes you come so soon?

You used to come at ten o'clock,

But now you come at noon.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, pp. 378-379. No. 465

A diller, a dollar,

A ten o'clock scholar,

What makes you come so soon?

You us'd to come at ten o'clock,

And now you come at noon.

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 82. No. 81