PEASE PORRIDGE HOT. III THOMAS A TATTAMUS. THOMAS A TATTAMUS took two T's, To frighten the terrible Thomas a Tattamus: Tell me how many T's there are in all THAT. PEASE PORRIDGE HOT. PEASE porridge hot, pease porridge cold, CURRANTS. HIGGLEDY, piggledy, Picked and plucked, And put in a pie. My first is snapping, snarling, growling; THE OLD MAN IN THE WILDERNESS. THE old man in the wilderness asked me :- IN-FIR-TAR-IS. TO A SNAIL. SNAIL, snail, put out your horns, A SNAIL THREATENED. THE SAD FATE [OF AN EGG]. HUMPTY Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; Three score men and three score more, 113 Cannot place Humpty Dumpty as he was before. IN-FIR-TAR-IS. (To be spoken quickly.) IN-fir-tar-is, In-oak-none-is, In-mud-eel-is, In-clay-none-is, Goat-eat-ivy, Can-a-mare-eat-oats? FORMED long ago, yet made to-day, Employed while others sleep; What few would like to give away, Nor any wish to keep. RELATIONSHIP. AS I WAS GOING TO ST. IVES. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives; 115 RELATIONSHIP. THERE were three sisters in a hall, There came a knight amongst them all. "Good-morrow, aunt," to the other, "If you were my aunt, As the other two be, I would say, Good-morrow, Then, aunts three." [What relation was the third lady to him? Why, mother, of course.] |