[Our Collection Of Nursery Songs May Appropriately Be Concluded With The Quaker'S Commentary On One Of The Greatest Favourites - Hey! Diddle, Diddle. We Have Endeavoured, As Far As Practicable, To Remove Every Line From The Present Edition That Could Offend The Most Fastidious Ear; But The Following Annotations On A Song We Cannot Be Induced To Omit, Would Appear To Suggest That Our Endeavours Are Scarcely Likely To Be Attended With Success.] "Hey! Diddle, Diddle, The Cat And The Fiddle" - Yes, Thee May Say That, For That Is Nonsense. "The Cow Jumped Over The Moon" - Oh No! Mary, Thee Musn'T Say That, For That Is A Falsehood; Thee Knows A Cow Could Never Jump Over The Moon; But A Cow May Jump Under It; So Thee Ought To Say - "The Cow Jumped Under The Moon." Yes, - "The Cow Jumped Under The Moon; The Little Dog Laughed" - Oh Mary, Stop. How Can A Little Dog Laugh? Thee Knows A Little Dog Can't Laugh. Thee Ought To Say - "The Little Dog Barked - To See The Sport," "And The Dish Ran After The Spoon" - Stop, Mary, Stop. A Dish Could Never Run After A Spoon; Thee Ought To Know That. Thee Had Better Say - "And The Cat Ran After The Spoon." So, - "Hey! Diddle, Diddle, The Cat And The Fiddle, The Cow Jump'D Under The Moon; The Little Dog Bark'D, To See The Sport, And The Cat Ran After The Spoon!"