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Posted By: Jim Dixon
09-Apr-11 - 04:17 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Alphabet Song variations
Subject: Lyr Add: MAJA'S ALPHABET
From The Treasury of Pleasure Books for Young Children edited by Joseph Cundall (Lowell [Mass.]: William G. Baker, 1850), page 50:


MAJA'S ALPHABET.

A is for Ann, who is milking a cow.
B is for Benjamin, making a bow.
C is for Charlotte, gathering flowers.
D is for Dick, who is one of the mowers.
E's for Eliza, feeding a hen.
F is for Frank, who is mending his pen.
G's Georgiana, shooting an arrow.
H is for Harry, wheeling a barrow.
I's Isabella, gathering fruit.
J is for John, who is playing the flute.
K is for Kate, who is nursing her dolly.
L is for Lawrence, feeding Poor Polly.
M is for Maja, learning to draw.
N is for Nicholas, with a jackdaw.
O's for Octavius, riding a goat.
P's for Penelope, sailing a boat.
Q is for Quintus, armed with a lance.
R is for Rachel, learning to dance.
S is for Sarah, talking to cook.
X is for Thomas, reading a book.
U is for Urban, rolling the green.
V's named Victoria, after our Queen.
W's for Walter, flying a kite.
X is for Xerxes, a boy of great might.
Y's for Miss Youthful, eating her bread.
AND
Z's Zachariah, a going to bed.