434 NURSERY RHYMES.

 

DCCLXVIII.

LITTLE Tom Dandy
Was my first suitor,

He had a spoon and dish,
And a little pewter.

DCCLXIX., 4)“

THERE was a little pretty iad,
And he-lived by himself,

And all the meat he got «>
He put upon a shelf.

The rats and. the mice
Did lead him such a life,

That he went to Ireland
To get himself.a wife.

The lanes they were so broad,
And the fields they were so narrow,
He couldn't get his wife home
Without a wheelbarrow. .

The wheelbarrow broke,
My wife she got a kick,

The deuce take the wheelbarrow,
That spared my wife’s neck.