Reading Notes: Nursery Rhymes: Love and Matrimony, Part B

 Story source: The Nursery Rhyme Book edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke (1897).

Love and Matrimony

Jack and Jill

(could be making this rhyme into an actual story)

  • This is my idea for the story
  • Jack tells Jill he has something for her at the top of the hill
  • she thinks he has a present for her
  • really he just wants her to help him fetch a pail of water
  • he needs to water his garden but he cannot carry the water all alone
  • Jill is excited to see what he has for her
  • once the finally make it to the top of the hill, she only sees a water spout and 2 buckets
  • she searches all around for her present
  • it is obviously nowhere to be found
  • she gets angry with  jack 
  • he tells her he just needed her to help him take some water down to his garden
  • she then fills up a bucket with him
  • once the bucket is full, she trips him down the hill
  • she goes down with him though because she was holding onto the bucket too
  • they both stumble down the hill
  • jack breaks his crown
Jack and Jill fell down a hill


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