De big bee zoon en little bee sting,
De little man lead en big hoss foller--
Kin you tell wat 's good fer a head in a holler?

The song in _Brother Rabbit and the Little Girl_ appeals
also to the child's sense of sound:--

De jay-bird hunt de sparrer-nes;
De bee-martin sail all 'roun';
De squer'l, he holler from de top er de tree,
Mr. Mole, he stay in de ground;
He hide en he stay twel de dark drap down--
Mr. Mole, he hide in de groun'.

_The simple and the sincere_. The child's taste for the
simple and the sincere is one reason for the appeal which
Andersen's tales make. In using his stories it is to be
remembered that, although Andersen lacked manliness in being
sentimental, he preserved the child's point of view and gave
his thought in the true nursery story's mode of expression.
Since real sentiment places the emphasis on the object which
arouses feeling and the sentimental places the emphasis on
the feeling, sincerity demands that in using Andersen's
tales, one lessen the sentimental when it occurs by omitting
to give prominence to the feeling. Andersen's tales reflect
what is elementary in human nature, childlike fancy, and
emotion. His speech is characterized by the simplest words
and conceptions, an avoidance of the abstract, the use of
direct language, and a naïve poetic expression adapted to
general comprehension. He is not to be equaled in child