Volume I Part 89 (1/2)

Get the prop and follow them.

-Sheffield (Miss Lucy Garnett).

VIII. Mother, buy some milking-cans, Milking-cans, milking-cans.

Where must our money come from?

Sell our father's feather bed.

[This goes on for many more verses, articles of furniture being mentioned in each succeeding verse.]

-Earls Heaton (Herbert Hardy).

IX. Buy me a milking-pail, my dear mother.

Where's the money to come from, my dear daughter?

Sell father's feather bed.

Where could your father sleep?

Sleep in the pig-sty.

What's the pigs to sleep in?

Put them in the was.h.i.+ng-tub.

What could I wash the clothes in?

Wash them in your thimble.

Thimble isn't big enough for baby's napkin.

Wash them in a saucer.

A saucer isn't big enough for father's s.h.i.+rt.

Wash by the river side, wash by the river side.

-Crockham Hill, Kent (Miss Chase).

X. Please, mother, buy me a milking-can, Milking-can, milking-can, Please, mother, buy me a milking-can, My dear mother.

Where can I get the money from?

Sell father's feather bed.

Where shall your father sleep?

Sleep in the boys' bed.

Where shall the boys sleep?

Sleep in the pig-sty.

Where shall the pigs sleep?

Sleep in the was.h.i.+ng-tub.

What shall I wash with?

Wash in an egg-sh.e.l.l.

The egg-sh.e.l.l will break.

Wash in a thimble.

Thimble's not big enough.

Wash by the river side.

Suppose the things should float away?

Get a boat and go after them.

Suppose the boat should be upset?

Then you'll be drowned, Drowned, drowned, Then you'll be drowned, And a good job too.

-Enborne, Berks. (Miss M. Kimber).