Nursery Crimes


Hickory, dickory, dock
Two mice ran up the clock;
The clock sturck one-
But the other one got away.


Mary had a little lamb,
A lobster and some prunes,
A glass of milk, a piece of pie, It made the busy waiters grin
To see her order so,
And when they carried Mary out,
Her face was white as snow.


Old mother huboard went to the cupboard
To get her to get her poor dog a bone.
When she got there, the cupboard was bare,
And she said: O I C U R M T!


Liddle Mees Muffitt
Saa Tonner Tufford
Eaton Herr Corzon Waye
Winn Alongo Kammer Spyra
Unda Sathe Down Beese Eidher
Ann Frydmann Mies Muffitt Taw Way.
(Compiled from the Toronto Telephone Directory)


Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
HumptyDumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Had scrambled eggs for dinner again.


MONTEZUMA
Montezuma met a puma
Coming through the rye;
Montezuma made the puma
Into apple-pie.
Invitation to the nation
Everyone to come.
Montezuma and the puma
Give a kettle-drum.
Acceptation of te nation,
One and all invited.
Montezuma and the puma
Equally delighted.
Preparation, Ostentation
Dresses rich prepared;
Feathers-Jewels-Work in crewels-
No expense is spared.
Congregation of the nation
Round the palace wall.
Awful rumor that the puma
Won't be served at all.
Deputation From the nation,
Audience they gain.
"What's this rumor? Montezuma,
If you please explain."
Montezuma (playful humor
Very well sustained)
Answers "Pie-dish and it's my dish,
Is for me retained."
Exclamation! Indignation!
Feeling running high.
Montezuma joins the puma
In the apple-pie.
D.F. ALDERSON