雙語·彼得兔的故事 愛普莉·達普利的童謠

APPLEY DAPPLY'S NURSERY RHYMES

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 Cotton-tail'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.

THE END