344.

‘NURSERY RHYMES.

 

 

DXCII.

WILLYWITE, Willywite,
With his long bill;
If he’s not gone,
He stands there still.

DXCIII.

LITTLE Poll Parrot

Sat in his garret,
Eating toast and tea;

A little brown mouse,

Jumped into the house,
And stole it all away.

DXCIV.

[The snail scoops out hollows, little rotund chambers, in
limestone, for its residence. This habit of the animal
is so important in its effects, as to have attracted the
attention of geologists, and Dr. Buckland alluded to it
at the meeting of the British Association in 1841.—The
following rhyme is a boy’s invocation to the snail to come
out of such holes. ]

SNAIL, snail, come out of your hole,

Or else I will beat you as black as a coal.

DXCV.

SNEEL, snaul,
Robbers are coming to pull down your
wall ;
Sneel, snaul,
Put out your horn,
Robbers are coming to steal your corn,
Coming at four o’clock in the morn.