“If I Were in Nursery Rhyme Land,” Friend, June 1971, 26–27
If I Were in Nursery Rhyme Land
This is a double puzzle. First there are some verses for you to rhyme. The words to fit the blank spaces are in the column [below]. There are extra words, so be careful. Second, different nursery rhymes are mentioned in these verses. Can you identify and say each one?
If I were the King
With the merry old _____,
I’d buy Simple Simon
A new fishing _____.
If I were Jack Horner
And had a plum _____,
I’d call Jack-a-Dandy
To see if he’d _____.
If I were a blackbird
That sat on a _____,
I’d not miss that tumble
Of poor Jack and _____.
If I were Down Dilly
And wore a green _____,
I’d ride a Cock Horse
To Banbury _____.
If I were the piggie
That had some roast _____,
I’d give Mother Hubbard
And her dog _____.
If I were the fair queen
Who ate honeyed _____,
I’d not be the Heart Queen
Who made tarts so _____.
night |
bread |
shoe |
Jill |
hill |
red |
sky |
pole |
belief |
relief |
pie |
day |
town |
gown |
wife |
soul |
beef |
buy |