ase make no mistake.
It's THOMAS who's the bad 'un--_I_ am good!

_Thos._ Yes, I delight in naughtiness for naughtiness's sake,
And I wouldn't be like WILLIAM if I could!

_Chorus._

_Wm._ Ever since I could toddle, my conduct's been model,
There's, oh, such a difference between me and him!

_Thos._ While still in the cradle, I orders obeyed ill,
And now I've grown into a awful young limb!

_Together._ Yes, now; {he's} grown into a awful young limb.
{I've}
I've made up my mind not to imitate _him_!

[_Here they dance._

_Second Verse._

_Wm._ If someone hits him in the eye, he always hits them back!
When _I_ am struck, my Ma I merely tell!
On passing fat pigs in a lane, he'll give 'em each a whack!

_Thos._ (_impenitently_). And jolly fun it is to hear 'em yell!

[_Chorus._

_Third Verse._

_Wm._ He's always cribbing coppers--which he spends on lollipops.

_Thos._ (A share of which _you_'ve never yet refused!)

_Wm._ A stone he'll shy at frogs and toads, and anything that hops!

_Thos._ (While you look on, and seem to be amused!)

[_Chorus._

_Fourth Verse._

_Wm._ As soon as school is over, THOMAS goes a hunting squirr'ls,
Or butterflies he'll capture in his hat!

_Thos. You_ play at Kissing in the Ring with all the little girls!

_Wm._ (_demurely_). Well, THOMAS, I can see no harm in _that_!

[_Chorus._

_Fifth Verse._

_Wm._ Ah, THOMAS, if you don't reform, you'll come to some bad end!

_Thos._ Oh, WILLIAM, put your head inside a bag!

_Wm._ No. THOMAS, that I cannot--till you promise to amend!

_Thos._ Why, WILLIAM, what a chap you are to nag!

[_Chorus and dance._ THOMAS _returns to road, and regards the
apple-trees longingly over top of wall._

_Thos._ Hi, WILLIAM, look ... what apples! there--don't _you_ see? And
pears--my eye! just _ain't_ they looking juicy!

_Wm._ Nay, THOMAS, since you're bent upon a sin,
_I_ will walk on, and visit BENJAMIN!

[_Exit_ WILLIAM (L. 2. E.), _while_ THOMAS _proceeds to scale
the wall and climb the boughs of the nearest pear-tree. Melodramatic
Music. The Monster Man-trap stealthily emerges from long grass be