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Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard,
The milk had gone sour in the night.
She did get a scare! But som Glaxo was there
So her babay had breakfast all right.
Anon. Glaxo Nursery Rhymes (1919)

Little Jack Horner
Sat in a corner,
So contented and pleased and amazed .
This up-to-date chappie,
Had what made him happy,
Those Beautiful dried fruits Sun Raysed.
S. A Thompson from C. J. De Garis, ed,
“Sun-Raysed” Childrens’ Fairy Book (1919)
Sing a song of Sixpence,
Cost of living’s high,
Four and twenty persons
Dined on one big pie;
Yet they rose up nourished
And walkng with a swing;
The pie was filled with Sun-Raysed.
Fit banquet for a king.
Some More Variations E. L. Martin from C. J. De Garis, ed,
“Sun-Raysed” Childrens’ Fairy Book (1919)
On Nursery Rhymes Teddy Bear
Teddy bear
Sat on a chair,
With ham and jam
And plum and pear .
From “Twinkle Twinkle Southern Cross”
“This is queer,”
compiled by Robert Holden. Above illustration from the cover. Said Teddy Bear,
“The more I eat
The Unsociable Wallaby The less is there.”
Willie spied a wallaby hopping through the fern — Leslie H Allen “Billy-Bubbles” (1920)
Here a jump, here a thump, there a sudden turn,
Willie called the wallaby, begging him to stop, Puff-tail Peter
But he went among the wattles with a Puff-tal Peter
Flip, Lives in a burrow,
Falp, He nibbles the wheat
Flop! In the farmer’s furrow,
C. J. Dennis, A Book fo Kids (1921) He pops up his head
Like a jack-in-the-box,
The Drovers And pops it down
Out across the spinifex, out across the sand, When he sees Bill Fox .
Out across the saltbush to Never Never land, Leslie H Allen “Billy-Bubbles” (1920)
That’s the way the drovers go, jogging down the track —
That’s the way the drovers go. But how do they come back? Bluey
Back across the saltbush from Never Never land, Bluet the cow
Back across the spinifiex, back across the sand.
She lies and blinks,
C. J. Dennis, A Book fo Kids (1921) I wonder now
What Bluey thinks!
In 1919 two Australian companies published acclimitised nurs-
ery rhymes in the their promotional campaign for Glaxo powdered Leslie H Allen “Billy-Bubbles” (1920)
milk and Sun Raysed dried fruit:

Pussy Cat, Pussy cat, where have you been? Editor’s Footnote:
I’ve been out looking for milk sweet and clean.
Pussy cat Pussy cat, how did you dare? These simple little poems are a great start point for getting kids
Didn’t I say there’s no Glaxo to spare? inerested in poetry. Why not teach them to be said out loud?
I’m just as sorry as sorry can be Better still! Learn a few yourself to recite when tucking the keds
It’s all meant for Baby and Mother and me. into bed at night.
Anon. Glaxo Nursery Rhymes (1919)
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