First they were all girls,
Next each a boy.

(The happiest lives still
Have some alloy.)

But through Queen’s bounty,
Introduced then,

Tom till he died was
Cheerfullest of men.

King Arthur lent the
Famed round table,
Hole in the middle,
Whence Tom’s able
To fill all the mouths
Perched in a row.
Oh, ’twas a sight, that
Prize Baby Show!’

Nimble Fack.

J ACK was nimble,

And Jack was quick,
And Jack jumped over the candlestick.

Jill she followed,
Overturned it quite,

And the tail of her night-dress set a-light.

MORAL.

A lesson for life have the little ones learnt,
For I’m sorry to say she was very much burnt.