[Introduction] Students divide our rhymes in narrative pieces, historical, folk-lore, game rhymes, counting-out rhymes, jingles, fragments, &cc., but for the children for whom and by who they are remembered, and for whom they are here collected and pictured anew, they are just--Nursery Rhymes.

I'll tell you a story
About Jack a Nory--
And now my story's begun:
I'll tell you another,
About Jack his brother--
And now my story's done.