DILLER, a dollar,

A ten o'clock scholar,

What makes you come so soon?
You used to come at ten o'clock,

But now you come at noon.

WHE

They make the number Six compleat. When I with V doth meet once more, Then 'tis they Two can make but Four. And when that V from I is gone, Alas! poor I can make but One.

HIRTY days hath September,
April, June, and November;
February has twenty-eight alone,
All the rest have thirty-one,

Excepting leap-year, that's the time

When February's days are twenty-nine.

M

How does your garden grow?

With cockle-shells, and silver bells,
And pretty maids all a row.

I

LOVE my love with an A, because he's Agreeable.

I hate him because he's Avaricious.

He took me to the Sign of the Acorn,

And treated me with Apples.

His name's Andrew,

And he lives at Arlington.

Eleven, twelve,
Who will delve?
Thirteen, fourteen,

Maids a-courting;

Fifteen, sixteen,

Maids a-kissing;
Seventeen, eighteen,

Maid a-waiting;

Nineteen, twenty,

My stomach's empty.

LLB

Cobyright 1897 by F. Warne & Co.

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