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MOTHER GOOSE
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Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, Where Have You Been?

PUSSY-CAT, pussy-cat, where have you been? 

I've been up to London to look at the queen. 

Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, what did you there?

I frighten'd a little mouse under the chair. 

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 101. No. DXIII


PUSSY-CAT, Pussy-cat, where have you been,

   I've been to London to look at the Queen?

Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat, what did you there?

I frighten'd a little mouse under the chair.

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. 30.


PUSSY-CAT, pussy-cat, where have you been? 

   I've been up to London to look at the queen. 

Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, what did you there?

I frighten'd a little mouse under the chair.

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p. 221.


Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?

I've been to London to look at the queen.

Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you there?

I frightened a little mouse under her chair.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, p.357. No. 428


Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?

I've been to London to look at the queen.

Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you there?

I frightened a little mouse under her chair.

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 116. No. 150



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