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Thread #111431   Message #2347907
Posted By: Joe_F
23-May-08 - 08:44 PM
Thread Name: Mention of Death in Children's Rhymes
Subject: RE: Mention of Death in Children's Rhymes
Azizi: "Baby, baby, naughty baby" is in _The Annotated Mother Goose_ (W. S. Baring-Gould & C. Baring-Gould, Eds., Potter, New York, 1962), p. 226. The book has a bibliography, but no references to it. Certainly, the use of Bonaparte as a bogeyman strongly suggests that it is British & early enough for Napoleon still to be thought of as The Enemy.