Nursery Rhyme. DLV. Natural History.

    How d' 'e dogs, how? whose dog art thou,
    Little Tom Tinker's dog! what's that to thou?
    Hiss! bow, a wow, wow!

    Leg over leg,
        As the dog went to Dover;
    When he came to a stile,
        Jump he went over.

    Pussy sits behind the fire,
        How can she be fair?
    In comes the little dog,
        Pussy, are you there?
    So, so, Mistress Pussy,
        Pray how do you do?
    Thank you, thank you, little dog,
        I'm very well just now.

    Pitty Patty Polt,
    Shoe the wild colt!
            Here a nail;
            And there a nail;
    Pitty Patty Polt.

    I had a little dog, and his name was Blue Bell,
    I gave him some work, and he did it very well;
    I sent him up stairs to pick up a pin,
    He stepped in the coal-scuttle up to the chin;
    I sent him to the garden to pick some sage,
    He tumbled down and fell in a rage;
    I sent him to the cellar to draw a pot of beer,
    He came up again and said there was none there.

    Goosy, goosy, gander,
    Who stands yonder?
    Little Betsy Baker;
    Take her up, and shake her.