The Chas. Addams Mother Goose

In the wake of the popularity of the first Addams Family television series, which ran from 1964-1966, cartoonist Charles Addams published The Chas. Addams Mother Goose, an oversized volume which contains some twenty-seven familiar nursery rhymes, each accompanied by one or more Addams illustrations that give a macabre interpretation to the nursery rhyme. It is pleasant for what it is, but one could wish for a volume with four or five times the number of nursery rhymes.  Here are a few examples, enough to decide whether the humor is for you or not. 

                                                       Girls and boys, 

                                                         Come out to play.

                                                       The moon does shine

                                                         As bright as day.

                                                       Come with a hoop.

                                                         Come with a cal,

                                                       Come with a good will,

                                                         Or not at all.