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<h3>DOCTOR McSWATTLE</h3> Doctor McSwattle Filled up a bottle With vinegar, varnish, and rum. And offered a swallow To all who would follow The call of his trumpet and drum. It’s good, I am told, For a cough or a cold; It’s good for a pain in your thumb. <h3>COLUMBUS</h3> Columbus sailed over the ocean blue To find the United States. In three small ships he carried his crew, And none of the three were mates. He found a land in the western seas, And Indians galore, With jabbering parrots in the trees, And sharks along the shore. <div class="figcenterm" style="width: 400px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i-045s.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="492" alt="Illustration 45" title="" /> </div> He filled his pockets with sparkling stones And took to the mighty main, With a couple of slaves, some nuts and cones For the glorious king of Spain. Now this is the tale Columbus told, And most of the tale is true, How he crossed the seas, a sailor bold, In fourteen-ninety-two. <div class="figcentert" style="width: 400px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i-046s.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="405" alt="Illustration 46" title="" /> </div> <h3>TERRIBLE TIM</h3> Haven’t you heard of Terrible Tim! Well, don’t you get in the way of him. He eats lions for breakfast And leopards for lunch, And gobbles them down With one terrible crunch. He could mix a whole city All up in a mess, He could drink up a sea Or an ocean, I guess. You’d better be watching for Terrible Tim, And run when you first get your peepers on him. <h3>WHAT’S THE USE?</h3> “What’s the use,” Said the goose, “To swim like a frog, When you go just as far If you float on a log?” “Why should I,” Said the fly, “Suck an old apple-core, When there’s sugar and fruit In the grocery store?” “It’s but right,” Said the kite, “That I follow the wind. What’s a fellow to do If he hasn’t a mind?” “You’ll allow,” Said the cow, “That I’m really no thief, When I turn all the clover I steal, into beef.” “Come again,” Said the hen, “On some other fine day. Don’t think ’cause I cackle I always must lay.” <h3>ALL ABOARD FOR BOMBAY</h3> All aboard for Bombay, All aboard for Rome! Leave your little sisters And your loving aunts at home. Bring a bit of bailing wire, A pocketful of nails, And half a dozen wiener-wursts For every man that sails. Tell Terry Tagg, when you go by, Be sure to bring his dog. All aboard for Bombay On a floating cedar log! <div class="figcenterb" style="width: 400px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i-047as.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="371" alt="Illustration 47a" title="" /> </div> <div class="figcentert" style="width: 400px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i-047bs.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="321" alt="Illustration 47b" title="" /> </div> <h3>WATER</h3> There’s water in the rain barrel, And water in the well, There’s lots of water in the pond Where Hannah Hawkins fell. There’s water in the ocean, And water in the skies, And when a fellow blubbers He gets water in his eyes. But in the Barca desert Where the hippodoodles play, The water in the rivers Just dries up and blows away. <h3>OLD MOLLY IS LOWING</h3> Old Molly is lowing and lowing ’Way down in the old meadow lot. I’ve given her water and clover, And all of the apples I’ve got; But she won’t eat a thing that I give her, And never drinks even a sup, For they’ve taken her baby to market And some one has eaten it up. I’d just like to go to the city And cut them all up into halves And feed them to sharks and to lions— Those people that eat little calves. <div class="figcenterb" style="width: 400px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i-048s.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="364" alt="Illustration 48" title="" /> </div> <h3>SNOWFLAKES</h3> The snowflakes are falling by ones and by twos; There’s snow on my jacket, and snow on my shoes; There’s snow on the bushes, and snow on the trees— It’s snowing on everything now, if you please. <div class="figcenterb" style="width: 400px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i-049s.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="513" alt="THE SNOWFLAKES ARE FALLING BY ONES AND BY TWOS" title="" /> THE SNOWFLAKES ARE FALLING BY ONES AND BY TWOS </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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