Vulgar words in Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes (Page 1)
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The Musical Ass 287 IVAN KRYLOV 245.
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More complex forms might be chosen for the third grade, for example, "The Story of Alnaschar," "The Good Samaritan," "The Discontented Pendulum," "The Musical Ass," "The Swan, the Pike, and the Crab," and "The Hen with the Golden Eggs."
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He saw a cross fellow was beating an ass, Heavy laden with pots, pans, dishes, and glass; He took out his pipe and played them a tune, And the jackass's load was lightened full soon.
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So she went along, and she went along, and she went along till she met Cocky-locky.
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"Where are you going, Henny-penny?" says Cocky-locky.
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"May I come with you?" says Cocky-locky.
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So Henny-penny and Cocky-locky went to tell the king the sky was a-falling.
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"Where are you going to, Henny-penny and Cocky-locky?" says Ducky-daddles.
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we're going to tell the king the sky's a-falling," said Henny-penny and Cocky-locky.
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"Certainly," said Henny-penny and Cocky-locky.
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So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, and Ducky-daddles went to tell the king the sky was a-falling.
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"Where are you going to, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, and Ducky-daddles?" said Goosey-poosey.
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we're going to tell the king the sky's a-falling," said Henny-penny and Cocky-locky and Ducky-daddles.
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"Certainly," said Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, and Ducky-daddles.
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So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, and Goosey-poosey went to tell the king the sky was a-falling.
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"Where are you going, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, and Goosey-poosey?" says Turkey-lurkey.
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we're going to tell the king the sky's a-falling," said Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, and Goosey-poosey.
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"May I come with you, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, and Goosey-poosey?" said Turkey-lurkey.
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"Oh, certainly, Turkey-lurkey," said Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, and Goosey-poosey.
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So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey all went to tell the king the sky was a-falling.
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So they went along, and they went along, and they went along, till they met Foxy-woxy, and Foxy-woxy said to Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey: "Where are you going, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey?"
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And Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey said to Foxy-woxy: "We're going to tell the king the sky's a-falling."
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but this is not the way to the king, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey," says Foxy-woxy; "I know the proper way; shall I show it you?"
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"Oh, certainly, Foxy-woxy," said Henny-Penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey.
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So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, Turkey-lurkey, and Foxy-woxy all went to tell the king the sky was a-falling.
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But Foxy-woxy said to Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey: "This is the short way to the king's palace; you'll soon get there if you follow me.
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I will go first and you come after, Henny-Penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey."
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"Why of course, certainly, without doubt, why not?" said Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey.
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So Foxy-woxy went into his cave, and he didn't go very far, but turned round to wait for Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey.
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Then Cocky-locky strutted down into the cave, and he hadn't gone far when "Snap, Hrumph!" went Foxy-woxy and Cocky-locky was thrown alongside of Turkey-lurkey, Goosey-poosey, and Ducky-daddles.
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But Foxy-woxy had made two bites at Cocky-locky, and when the first snap only hurt Cocky-locky, but didn't kill him, he called out to Henny-penny.
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As he drew near to the wood where he had left his wife, he heard a parrot on a tree calling out his name: "Mr. Vinegar, you foolish man, you blockhead, you simpleton; you went to the fair and laid out all your money in buying a cow.
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"You shall go, hussy," said the mother, "and this minute."
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"Well, mother," answered the pert hussy, throwing out of her mouth two vipers and two toads.
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THE TRAVELING MUSICIANS An honest farmer had once an ass that had been a faithful servant to him a great many years, but was now growing old and every day more and more unfit for work.
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"Pray, honest friend," said a citizen, "is that Ass your own?"
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At that time a hawker used to go from place to place, trafficking in goods carried by an ass.
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Terrified with the fear of death, the ass uttered a cry--the bray of an ass!
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And when he knew him then to be an ass, the future Buddha pronounced the first verse: "This is not a lion's roaring, Nor a tiger's nor a panther's; Dressed in a lion's skin, 'Tis a wretched ass that roars!"
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But when the villagers knew the creature to be an ass, they beat him till his bones broke; and, carrying off the lion's skin, went away.
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THE MUSICAL ASS TOMAS YRIARTE The fable which I now present Occurred to me by accident; And whether bad or excellent, Is merely so by accident.
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A stupid ass one morning went Into a field by accident And cropp'd his food and was content, Until he spied by accident A flute, which some oblivious gent Had left behind by accident; When, sniffing it with eager scent, He breathed on it by accident, And made the hollow instrument Emit a sound by accident.
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So, when Pan made love to her, she very naturally kept him at a distance: and, as she supposed him to be no worse-looking than the rest of the world, she made up her mind to have nothing to do with love or lovemaking, and was quite content to ramble about the woods all alone.
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Then the grasshoppers drew near and the swans sailed close to the river banks, and the countrymen gathered about to hear wonderful tales of the slaying of the monster Python, and of a king with ass's ears, and of a lovely maiden, Daphne, who grew into a laurel-tree.
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Apollo would not suffer such a depraved pair of ears any longer to wear the human form, but caused them to increase in length, grow hairy within and without, and to become movable on their roots; in short, to be on the perfect pattern of those of an ass.
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That Icarus was a silly cuss,-- Him an' his daddy Daedalus; They might 'a' knowed wings made o' wax Wouldn't stan' sun-heat an' hard whacks: I'll make mine o' luther, er suthin' er other."
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The gentleman, laughing, gave Margery sixpence, and told her she was a sensible hussy.
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They made haste to unbar the door, and when it was opened they saw a strange sight: mounted on an ass, whose head was held by a laboring man of the village, sat Don Quixote, huddled together in a most uncavalier-like posture, his armor all battered and his face begrimed with dirt.
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_See also_ Fable Apple of Discord, The, 332 _Arabian Nights' Entertainment, The_, =579=, 235, 578, 579 Arab to His Favorite Steed, The, =420= Arthur and Sir Accalon, =603= Arthur, King, =595-603=, 577, 578, 594 ASBJÖRNSEN, P., =122-128=; work of, 122 "As I was going to St. Ives," =23= "As I was going up Pippen Hill," =23= "As I went to Bonner," =23= Ass in the Lion's Skin, The, =281= "As Tommy Snooks and Bessie Brooks," =23= "A swarm of bees in May," =23= Autobiography; _See_ Biography Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The, =646= A Was an Apple-Pie, =34= "Baa, baa, black sheep," =23= Babes in the Wood, The, =39= Baby Bye, =373= BAILEY, C. S., =59= BAIN, R. N., =160= Ballad, =425=, =436=, =628=, 437, 628 Ballad of Nathan Hale, The, =425= BARBAULD, A. L., =451= "Barber, barber, shave a pig," =23= Battle between the Fox and the Wolf, The, =591= _Bears of Blue River, The_, =500= BEAUMONT, MADAME DE, =110= Beauty and the Beast, =110= BEECHER, H. W., =290= _Beowulf_, 577 Beth Gêlert, =436= Betty's Ride, A Tale of the Revolution, =496= _Beyond the Pasture Bars_, =520= _Bible, The_, =288=, =289= Bibliography: (_a_).
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_See also_ Poetry, traditional _Mother Goose's Melody_, 19, 20, 445 Mother Hubbard and Her Dog, =41= Moti Guj--Mutineer, =562= Moufflou, =535= Mountain and the Squirrel, The, =424= Mountebank and the Countryman, The, =277= Mr. 'Possum's Sick Spell, =516= Mr. Vinegar, The Story of, =71= MULOCK, MISS, =73=, =80= "Multiplication is vexation," =28= Musical Ass, The, =287= My Bed Is a Boat, =383= My Garden, =418= My Shadow, =383= Myths, =306-366=; discussion of, 303-305; definition of, 303; objections to, 304; use in school, 305; value of, 304; Greek and Roman, =306-343=; explanatory introduction to, 306; Norse, =343-366=; explanatory introduction to, 343, 348, 360 Narcissus, The, =330= Nathan Hale, The Ballad of, =425= Nature literature, =513-574=; discussion of, 511-512; place in the grades, 13, 512; some types of, 511-512; what it is, 511 "Needles and pins, needles and pins," =29= NEWBERY, J., 19, 20, 445 NICOLAY, H., =655= Nightingale, The, =184= Noodle story; _See_ Droll _Norse Stories_, =348=, =360= NORTON, C. E., =420= Nursery rhymes; _See_ Poetry _Nursery Rhymes and Tales_, =59-63=, 56, 71 _Nursery Rhymes of England_, 20 _Odyssey, The_, 577 _Old Deccan Days_, =152=, 150, 151 _Old Greek Folk Stories_, =335=, =337= Old Ironsides, =425= "Old King Cole," =29= Old Man and His Sons, The, =275= _Old Mother West Wind_, =515= Old Pipes and the Dryad, =234= Old Woman and Her Pig, The, =56= "Once I saw a little bird," =29= "One for the money," =29= "One misty, moisty morning," =29= "1, 2, 3, 4, 5," =29= "One, two," =29= OUIDA, =535=, 534 Over Hill, Over Dale, =423= Owl and the Pussy-Cat, The, =403= PAINE, A.