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LITTLE VERSES FOR VERY LITTLE PEOPLE

Little Polly Flinders

Sat among the cinders

Warming her pretty little toes;

Her mother came and caught her

And whipped her little daughter

For spoiling her nice new clothes.

Miss Kitty was rude at the table one day

And would not sit still on her seat;

Regardless of all that her mother could say

From her chair little Kitty kept running away

All the time they were eating their meat.

As soon as she saw that the beef was removed

She ran to her chair in great haste;

But her mother such giddy behavior reproved

By sending away the sweet pudding she loved

Without giving Kitty one taste.

Rowley Powley, pudding and pie,

Kissed the girls and made them cry;

When the girls came out to play,

Rowley Powley ran away.

There was an old man in a tree

Who was horribly bored by a bee;

When they said, "Does it buzz?"

He replied, "Yes, it does.

It's a regular brute of a bee!"

There was a little girl, who had a little curl,

Right in the middle of her forehead;

When she was good, she was very, very good,

But when she was bad, she was horrid.

One day she went upstairs, while her parents, unawares,

In the kitchen down below were occupied with meals;

And she stood upon her head, on her little truckle bed,

And she then began hurraying with her heels.

Her mother heard the noise, and thought it was the boys

A-playing at a combat in the attic;

But when she climbed the stair, and saw Jemima there,