A bag pudding the Queen did make, And stuffed it well with plums, And in it put great lumps of fat As big as my two thumbs. The King and Queen did eat thereof, And noblemen beside: And what they could not eat that night, The Queen next morning fried. WORRYING OLD WOMAN IN SURREY. THE OLD WOMAN WHO WAS TOSSED IN A BLANKET. THERE was an old woman was tossed in a blanket, And where she was going no mortal could tell, "Old woman, old woman, old woman," said I, THE WORRYING OLD WOMAN IN THERE was an old woman in Surrey, Who was morn, noon, and night, in a hurry, Drove her children to school, This worrying old woman in Surrey. THE SURPRISING OLD WOMAN. think? THERE was an old woman, and, what do you She went to the baker's, to buy her some bread, And when she came back, her old husband was well. NOTHING-AT-ALL. THERE was an old woman called Nothing-at-All, HERE were three jovial Welshmen, As I have heard them say, All the day they hunted, And nothing could they find, But a ship a-sailing, A-sailing with the wind. One said it was a ship, The other, he said "Nay;" The third said it was a house, And the chimney blown away. |