Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories — Robert Ford

In offering to the public this collection of Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, and Children's Stories -- the multitudinous items of which, or such, at least, as were not living in my own memory, have been gathered with patient industry, albeit with much genuine delight, from wide and varied sources -- I anticipate for the work a hearty and general welcome, alike from old and young. It is the first really sincere effort to collect in anything like ample and exclusive fashion the natural literature of the children of Scotland, and meets what has long appealed to me as decidedly a felt want.