Part 16 (1/2)
Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day of all; Thursday for losses, Friday for crosses, Sat.u.r.day no day at all.
Sunrise, breakfast; sun high, dinner; Sundown, sup, makes a saint of a sinner.
Tom married a wife on Monday, He got a stick on Tuesday, He beat her well on Wednesday, Sick was she on Thursday, Dead was she on Friday, Glad was Tom on Sat.u.r.day, To bury his wife on Sunday.
Little Goody Tidy Was born on a Friday, Was christened on a Sat.u.r.day, Ate roast beef on Sunday, Was very well on Monday, Was taken ill on Tuesday, Sent for the doctor on Wednesday, Died on Thursday.
So there's an end to little Goody Tidy.
Bobby Shaft is gone to sea, With silver buckles at his knee, When he comes home he'll marry me, Pretty Bobby Shaft!
Bobby Shaft is fat and fair, Combing down his yellow hair; He's my love for evermore, Pretty Bobby Shaft!
A good child, a good child, As I suppose you be, Never laughed nor smiled At the tickling of your knee.
Commodore Rogers was a brave man--exceedingly brave--particular; He climbed up very high rocks--exceedingly high--perpendicular; And what made this the more inexpressible, These same rocks were quite inaccessible.
When I was a little boy, I washed my mammie's dishes, I put my finger in my eye, And pulled out golden fishes.
Little King Boggen he built a fine hall, Pye crust and pastry crust, that was the wall; The windows were made of black puddings and white, And slated with pancakes you ne'er saw the like.
A CHERRY
_Galloway_
Riddle me, riddle me, rot, tot, tot, A wee, wee man in a red, red coat, A staff in his hand, and a stane in his throat, Riddle me, riddle me, rot, tot, tot.
PERTH
A penny for the chappin' stick,[C]
Tuppence for the theevil,[D]
That's the way the money goes, Pop goes the weasel.
[C] Used for pounding potatoes.
[D] For stirring porridge.
c.o.c.ky-bendy's lying sick, Guess ye what'll mend him?
Twenty kisses in a clout, La.s.sie will ye send 'em?
Cherries a ha'penny a stick!
Come and pick! Come and pick!