"Um, they're children's rhymes, or nursery rhymes. There isn't really a Mother Goose, but she's kind of used as an author of them, or a way of gathering them as a collection.
"There are all kinds of theories about the rhymes being political, or meanings they'd have had when they were written, but mostly now we just read them to children. Things like, um, 'Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider, who sat down beside her, and frightened Miss Muffet away.'"
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"Um, they're children's rhymes, or nursery rhymes. There isn't really a Mother Goose, but she's kind of used as an author of them, or a way of gathering them as a collection.
"There are all kinds of theories about the rhymes being political, or meanings they'd have had when they were written, but mostly now we just read them to children. Things like, um, 'Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider, who sat down beside her, and frightened Miss Muffet away.'"