Charles Welsh

“ On level ground spare me not,
And in the stable forget me not.
Shoe the horse, and shoe the mare;
But let the little colt go bare.
SEE, see! what shall I see?
A horse's head where his tail should be. ”

“ Snaps and snails, and puppy-dogs' tails;
And that's what little boys are made of,
⁠made of.
What are little girls made of, made of,
⁠made of?
What are little girls made of?
Sugar and spice, and all that's nice;
And that's what little girls are made of,
⁠made of.
Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
⁠How does your garden grow?
With cockle-shells and silver bells
⁠And pretty girls all of a-row.
Sugar and spice, and all that's nice.
Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green;
Father's a nobleman, mother's a Queen ”

“ The same Offence was again committed three different Times, and as many Actions brought, in all of which the Farmer had a Verdict and Costs paid him; but notwithstanding these Advantages, the Law was so expensive, that he was ruined in the Contest, and obliged to give up all he had to his Creditors; which effectually answered the Purpose of Sir Timothy, who erected those Nuisances in the Farmer's Orchard with that Intention only. Ah, my dear Reader, we brag of Liberty, and boast of our Laws: but the Blessings of the one, and the Protection of the other, seldom fall to the Lot of the Poor ”

“ See a pin and pick it up,
All the day you'll have good luck;
See a pin and let it lay,
Bad luck you'll have all the day.
Riddle me, riddle me, riddle me ree,
None are so blind as those that won't see. ”

“ In 1872, whilst engaged in his official duties on the Pacific coast, he was consulted as to an old controversy in regard to animal locomotion, viz. whether a trotting horse at any portion of its stride has all its feet entirely off the ground. On the race-course at Sacramento, California, in May 1872, he made several negatives of Occident, a celebrated horse, while trotting laterally in front of his camera at speeds varying from 2 mins. 25 secs, to 2 mins. 18 secs, per mile. These experiments showed that the horse's four feet were at times all off the ground. ”

“ If "ifs" and "ands,"
Were pots and pans,
There would be no need for tinkers!
Birds of a feather flock together,
⁠And so will pigs and swine;
Rats and mice will have their choice,
⁠And so will I have mine. ”

“ The shutters of the cameras were operated by means of thin thread stretched across the path of the animal the record of whose movements was to be taken. Some of the results of these early experiments illustrating the action of horses whilst walking, trotting, or galloping were published in 1878 under the title of 'The Horse in Motion.' In his analysis of the quadrupedal walk, Muybridge arrived at the conclusion that the successive foot-fallings are invariable and are probably common to all quadrupeds. ”

“ A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold
Egg.
Black we are, but much admired,
Men seek for us till they are tired,
We tire the horse but comfort man ”

“ ALL the World must allow, that Two Shoes was not her real Name. No; her Father's Name was Meanwell; and he was for many Years a considerable Farmer in the Parish where Margery was born; but by the Misfortunes which he met with in Business, and the wicked Persecution of Sir Timothy Gripe, and an overgrown Farmer called Graspall, he was effectually ruined. ”

“ Becoming a partner in 1864, he started the Rathbones' London house, and his business ability quickly brought him to the front rank of London merchants. He became a director of the Bank of England in 1870, deputy-governor in 1887, and governor in 1889.
During Lidderdale's deputy-governorship effect was given by the bank to the reduction of the interest on the national debt, in accordance with the National Debt Conversion Act passed in 1888, by George Joachim Goschen [q. v. Suppl. II] , the chancellor of the exchequer. ”

“ THE direct simplicity, dramatic imagination, and spontaneous humor of the rhymes and jingles of Mother Goose will probably never be excelled by any modern verse. They will for the most part doubtless remain for all time "the light literature of the infant scholar." Although some fragments of what has been written since the collection was first made may go to swell the volume of this inheritance from past ages, the selection of any permanent additions will be made finally by the mother and the child. ”

“ For John Rylands (1801–1888) [q. v.] of Manchester he printed for private circulation an admirable anthology, ‘Hymns of the Church Universal’ (1885) , and was chairman of the editorial committee of the ‘Baptist Hymnal.’
An appreciative and widely read critic of secular literature, he was the adviser of John Rylands's widow, of Stretford near Manchester, in various literary and benevolent schemes from the time of her husband's death in 1888. He and his third son, J. Arnold Green, assisted Mrs. Rylands in the erection of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, which was opened in 1899. ”

“ Margery’s Father flew into another Parish for Succour, and all those who were able to move left their Dwellings and sought Employment elsewhere, as they found it would be impossible to live under the Tyranny of two such People. The very old, the very lame and the blind were obliged to stay behind, and whether they were starved, or what became of them, History does not say ”

“ I spent a penny of it, I spent another,
⁠And I took nothing home to my wife.
Oh, my little nothing, my pretty little
⁠nothing,
⁠What will nothing buy for my wife?
I have nothing, I spend nothing,
⁠I love nothing better than my wife. ”

“ This is not the Book, Sir, mentioned in the Title, but the Introduction to that Book; and it is intended, Sir, not for those Sort of Children, but for Children of six Feet high, of which, as my Friend has justly observed, there are many Millions in the Kingdom; and these Reflections, Sir, have been rendered necessary, by the unaccountable and diabolical Scheme which many Gentlemen now give into, of laying a Number of Farms into one, and very often of a whole Parish into one Farm ”

“ From 1873 to 1903 he was chairman of the Sheffield United Gas Company ; he was a director of the Bridgwater navigation, was a working director of the Midland railway (1869-1900) , and as juror at the Paris exhibition of 1878 was made an officer of the legion of honour. Mappin, who was an early supporter of the volunteer movement, joined the 4th (Hallamshire) York and Lancaster regiment in March 1861, and retired as captain in March 1872.
An influential leader of local liberalism, he was president of the Hallamshire Liberal Association, and of the Sheffield United Liberal Association. ”

“ It will be seen from the present collection that not only do these rhymes and jingles fall naturally into the four great divisions of Mother Play, Mother Stories, Child Play, and Child Stories, but there is a logical order in which each section may be advantageously presented to the child,—an order which, by the way, the mother-instinct almost always finds out without any consciousness of following a law. The mother may generally be safely trusted to present these rhymes and jingles to the child in the natural order of the awakening of the child's interest and growing intelligence. ”