<h3><SPAN name="caper" id="caper"></SPAN>CUT UP A CAPER</h3>
<p class="block13 nob">Cut up a caper,<br/>
You’ve got a paper<br/>
And I’ve got a widget of string.<br/>
You be the army<br/>
And let nothing harm me<br/>
For I am the captain and king.</p>
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<ANTIMG src="images/i-081bs.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="390" alt="Illustration 81b" title="" />
<br/><span class="link"><SPAN href="images/i-081bx.jpg"></SPAN></span></div>
<div class="figcentert" style="width: 400px;">
<ANTIMG src="images/i-082s.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="516" alt="WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A TREAT" title="" />
<span class="caption">WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A TREAT</span>
<br/><span class="link"><SPAN href="images/i-082x.jpg"></SPAN></span></div>
<h3> <SPAN name="eat" id="eat"></SPAN>EAT, EAT, EAT</h3>
<p class="block16 b4">Here come the sweet potatoes<br/>
And here’s the Sunday meat,<br/>
I guess we must be ready now<br/>
To eat, eat, eat.<br/>
<br/>
I’m going to have the nicey plate<br/>
And Daddy’s leather seat,<br/>
And wear my patent-leather shoes<br/>
To eat, eat, eat.<br/>
<br/>
My Daddy’s talking all about<br/>
The war, and some old fleet,<br/>
I wonder if he never, never,<br/>
Never wants to eat.<br/>
<br/>
We’re going to have some apple-cake,<br/>
We’re going to have a treat.<br/>
O hurry, hurry, Daddy,<br/>
Let us eat, eat, eat.</p>
<div class="figcentert" style="width: 400px;">
<ANTIMG src="images/i-083s.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="560" alt="Illustration 83" title="" />
<br/><span class="link"><SPAN href="images/i-083x.jpg"></SPAN></span></div>
<h3><SPAN name="hutton" id="hutton"></SPAN>HETTY HUTTON</h3>
<p class="block9 b4">Hetty Hutton,<br/>
Here’s a button,<br/>
Sew it on your dress.<br/>
<br/>
Willie Waller,<br/>
Here’s a dollar,<br/>
Maybe more or less.<br/>
<br/>
Mister Shuster,<br/>
Here’s a rooster,<br/>
Put him in a pen.<br/>
<br/>
Mister Saxon,<br/>
Get an ax an’<br/>
Let him out again.</p>
<div class="figcentert" style="width: 400px;">
<ANTIMG src="images/i-084s.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="361" alt="Illustration 84" title="" />
<br/><span class="link"><SPAN href="images/i-084x.jpg"></SPAN></span></div>
<h3><SPAN name="potato" id="potato"></SPAN>A BIG, FAT POTATO</h3>
<p class="block24 nob">A big, fat potato lay down on a clod<br/>
In the shade of some burdock and tall goldenrod,<br/>
And he dreamed he were king of the whole garden plot,<br/>
With a palace and throne, and a crown with a lot<br/>
Of jewels and diamonds and gold till it shone<br/>
Like the front of a show when the lights are turned on.<br/>
He had to be minded by all of the plants;<br/>
When he whistled the radishes knew they must dance;<br/>
When he tooted his horn the cucumbers must sing<br/>
To a vegetable crowd gathered round in a ring.<br/>
He made all the cabbages stand in a row<br/>
While a sunflower instructed them just how to grow;<br/>
The bright yellow pumpkins he painted light blue;<br/>
Took the clothes off the scare-crow and made him buy new.<br/>
He strutted and sputtered and thought it was grand<br/>
To be king and commander o’er all the wide land.<br/>
But at last he woke up with an awful surprise<br/>
And found a blind mole kicking sand in his eyes.</p>
<div class="figcenterb" style="width: 400px;">
<ANTIMG src="images/i-085as.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="365" alt="Illustration 85a" title="" />
<br/><span class="link"><SPAN href="images/i-085ax.jpg"></SPAN></span></div>
<h3><SPAN name="hay" id="hay"></SPAN>A BUNDLE OF HAY</h3>
<p class="block11 nob">A bundle of hay<br/>
From Baffin’s Bay,<br/>
A johnny-cake from Rome,<br/>
A man and a mule<br/>
From Ultima Thule<br/>
To carry the cargo home.</p>
<div class="figcenterb" style="width: 400px;">
<ANTIMG src="images/i-085bs.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="452" alt="Illustration 85b" title="" />
<br/><span class="link"><SPAN href="images/i-085bx.jpg"></SPAN></span></div>
<div class="figcentert" style="width: 400px;">
<ANTIMG src="images/i-086s.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="641" alt="Illustration 86" title="" />
<br/><span class="link"><SPAN href="images/i-086x.jpg"></SPAN></span></div>
<h3><SPAN name="popper" id="popper"></SPAN>PETER, POPPER</h3>
<p class="block14 b4">Peter, popper, dopper, Dan,<br/>
Catch a moonbeam if you can;<br/>
Climb a cedar ten feet high<br/>
And pick the planets from the sky.<br/>
You’re a wonder, little man—<br/>
Peter, popper, dopper, Dan.</p>
<h3><SPAN name="annum" id="annum"></SPAN>OLD FATHER ANNUM</h3>
<p class="block19 nob">Old Father Annum on New Year’s Day<br/>
Picked up his bag of months and years,<br/>
Thrust in his hand in a careless way,<br/>
And pulled a wee fellow out by the ears.<br/>
“There you are,” said he to the waiting crowd,<br/>
“He’s as good as any I have in my pack.<br/>
I never can tell, but I hope to be proud<br/>
Of the little rascal when I come back.”</p>
<div class="figcenterb" style="width: 400px;">
<ANTIMG src="images/i-087s.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="517" alt="OLD FATHER ANNUM" title="" />
<span class="caption">OLD FATHER ANNUM</span>
<br/><span class="link"><SPAN href="images/i-087x.jpg"></SPAN></span></div>
<h3><SPAN name="flower" id="flower"></SPAN>THE TIPPANY FLOWER</h3>
<p class="block17 b4">O what will you take for a tippany flower,<br/>
And what will you take for a pansy?<br/>
I’ll take a smile for the tippany flower,<br/>
And a kiss for the pretty pansy.</p>
<div class="figcentert" style="width: 400px;">
<ANTIMG src="images/i-088s.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="304" alt="Illustration 88" title="" />
<br/><span class="link"><SPAN href="images/i-088x.jpg"></SPAN></span></div>
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