he top of the sky
And used them to watch
The eclipses go by?

NEEDLES AND PINS

Needles and pins, hooks and eyes!
I saw a doughnut in the skies.
Flipperjinks the circus clown
Climbed a tree and got it down.

[Illustration: NEEDLES AND PINS, HOOKS AND EYES!]

A TOE RIME

Tassle is a captain,
Tinsel is a mayor,
Tony is a baker-boy
With 'lasses in his hair,
Tipsy is a sailor,
With anchors on his chest,
And Tiny is the baby boy
Who bosses all the rest.

HARRY HOOKER

Harry Hooker had a book
And couldn't find a teacher.
But still he managed very well,
He climbed a box and rang a bell
And turned into a preacher.

[Illustration]

JELLY JAKE AND BUTTER BILL

[Illustration]

Jelly Jake and Butter Bill
One dark night when all was still
Pattered down the long, dark stair,
And no one saw the guilty pair;
Pushed aside the pantry-door
And there found everything galore,--
Honey, raisins, orange-peel,
Cold chicken aplenty for a meal,
Gingerbread enough to fill
Two such boys as Jake and Bill.
Well, they ate and ate and ate,
Gobbled at an awful rate
Till I'm sure they soon weighed more
Than double what they did before.
And then, it's awful, still it's true,
The floor gave way and they went thru.
Filled so full they couldn't fight.
Slowly they sank out of sight.
Father, Mother, Cousin Ann,
Cook and nurse and furnace man
Fished in forty-dozen ways
After them, for twenty days;
But not a soul has chanced to get
A glimpse or glimmer of them yet.
And I'm afraid we never will--
Poor Jelly Jake and Butter Bill.

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CUT UP A CAPER

Cut up a caper,
You've got a paper
And I've got a widget of string.
You be the army
And let nothing harm me
For I am the captain and king.

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[Illustration: WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A TREAT]

EAT, EAT, EAT

Here come the sweet potatoes
And here's the Sunday meat,
I guess we must be ready now
To eat, eat, eat.

I'm going to have the nicey plate
And Daddy's leather seat,
And wear my patent-leather shoes
To eat, eat, eat.

My Daddy's talking all about
The war, and some old fleet,
I wonder if he never, never,
Never wants to eat.

We're going to have some apple-cake,
We're going to have a treat.
O hurry, hurry, Daddy,
Let us eat, eat, eat