THE School Managers' Series OF READING BOOKS ADAPTED TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE NEW CODE OF 1871 EDITED BY THE REV. A. R. GRANT, M.A. RECTOR OF HITCHAM, AND HONORARY CANON OF ELY; LATE H.M. INSPECTOR OF THIRD STANDARD Capio umen ODLE LONDON: LOCKWOOD & CO., 7, STATIONERS' HALL COURT, THIRD STANDARD. THE PEDLAR'S CARAVAN. I WISH I lived in a caravan, With a horse to drive, like the pedlar-man! Or where he goes to, but on he goes! His caravan has windows two, And a chimney of tin that the smoke comes through; He has a wife, with a baby brown, And they go riding from town to town. Chairs to mend, and delf to sell! He clashes the basins like a bell, Plates with the alphabet round the border! The roads are brown, and the sea is green, |