- [first lines]
- Self - Narrator: This time our journey along the Passing Parade takes us for a story to a child's nursery and to one of the forgotten mysteries of our time; for here are hidden away a hundred secret messages from the past, concealed between the covers of the world's most innocent book: Mother Goose.
- [last lines]
- Self - Narrator: These are some of the mysteries hidden in Mother Goose. There may be many a-new one added to this book someday, like the jingle that turned up only recently in the Passing Parade, which probably honors the unlovely character known as Adolf Hitler: 'A Hunter named Fritz, as we know, / caught a Bear by the tail in the Snow. / He was terribly vexed and awfully perplexed, / for the Bear simply wouldn't let go.'
- [the short film fades to 'The End']