Young Folk

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 6, 6 May 1893, Page 3

Young Folk

A GOOD MEM J Y A pound of tea, at one-and-three, A pot of raspberry jam, Two new-laid eggs, a dozen pegs, And a pound of rashers of ham. I’ll say it over all the way, Add then I’m sure not to forget; For if I chance to bring things wrong, My mother gets in such a pet. A pound of tea at one-and-three, A pot of raspberry jam, Two new-laid eggs, a dozen pegs, And a pound of rashers of ham. There in the hay the children play—■ They’re having such jolly fun. I’ll go there too—-that’s what I’ll do, As soon as my errands are done. A pound of three, at one-aud-tea, A pot of—er—jaspberry ram, Two new-laid eggs, a dozen pegs, And a pound of rashers of ham. There’s Teddy White flying his kite, He things himself grand, I declare; I’d make it fly higher than the old church And then—but then. (spire, A pound of three, at one-and-tea, A pot of raspberry ham, Two new-laid pegs, a dozen eggs, And a pound of rashers of jam. Now, here’s the shop, outside I’ll stop And say my orders through again ; I’ve ne’er forgot a single jot, Which shows I’m pretty ’cute, that’s (plain. A pound at three, and one of tea, A pot of new-laid ham; Two raspberry eggs, a pound of pegs, And a dozen rashers of jam. —Selected.