hush-a-bye

Updated: May 22, 2025

Walking about from river to quay, and going on with all that rubbish it's shocking, ma'am, it's shocking!" "Hush-a-bye, hush-a-bye!" It was the voice of Grannie, low and quavery; she was rocking the cradle. "You can't spake to him neither but he's scolding you scandalous.

Sir Hall Caine - The Manxman: A Novel - 1895