..." Oh! no, kind sir, you will snap our heads off?" CCCLV. BURNIE bee, burnie bee, Tell me when your wedding be ? If it be to-morrow day, Take your wings and fly away. CCCLVI. THE sow came in with the saddle, The little pig rock'd the cradle, The dish jump'd over the...

...off?" " Oh ! no, kind sir, you will snap our heads off." 345. BURNIE bee, burnie bee, Tell me when your wedding be ? If it be to-morrow day, Take your wings and fly away. 346. THE sow came in with the saddle, The little pig rock'd the cradle, The dish jump'd over the table,...

...is called burny-bee, and the following lines are current ; Burnie bee, burnie bee, Tell me when your wedding be. If it be to-morrow day, Take your wings and fly away. These lines are said by children, when they throw the beautiful little insect into the air, to make...

...night." While FE furnishes us with another and happier version of the Norfolk popular rhyme : — *' Bishop, Bishop Barnabee, Tell me when my wedding be...it be to-morrow day. Take your wings and fly away I Fly to the tast, fly to the icest, Fly to them that J lore belt .'" The name which this pretty insect...

...To which I add another nursery doggerel less sad : — " Bishop, Bishop-Barnabee, Tell me when your wedding be, If it be to-morrow day Take your wings and fly away." The Major adds, "It is sure to fly off on the third repetition." " Burnt down," continues the Major,...

...alights on the hand, they practise a kind of divination with it, repeating the following rhyme : — " Bishop Bishop Barnabee, Tell me when my wedding Be ; If it be to-morrow-day, Take your wings and fly away. Fly to the East, fly to the West, And fly to them that...

...boy Who lives in the lane. BYE BABY BUNTING. LESS you, bless you, bonnie bee : Say, when will your wedding be ? If it be to-morrow day, Take your wings and fly away. BONNIE lass! bonnie lass! wilt thou be mine ? Thou shalt neither wash dishes nor serve the swine, But...

...song to the Lady-bird under a different name, " Bless you, bless you, Burnie-bee Tell me where your wedding be ; If it be to-morrow day, Take your wings and fly away." Hans in Luck, p. 1. — The " Hans im Gliick " of MM. Grimm ; a story of popular currency communicated...

...song to the Lady-bird under a different name, " Bless you, bless you, Burnie-bee Tell me where your wedding be ; If it be to-morrow day, Take your wings and fly away." Hans in Luck, p. 1. — The " Hans im Gliick " of MM. Grimm ; a story of popular currency communicated...

...verse addressed to this beetle, it runs thus • — " Bish-a, bish-a barna bee, Tell me when your wedding be ; If it be to-morrow day Take your wings and fly away." ' In Norfolk more especially is this curious name given to the lady-bird ; every child, rich and poor,...