TROTTY MALONE.
Boys and girls, come riddle and ravel,
Tell us how you would like to travel.
Crispy, crackly, snow and tingle,
"Give me sleighs!" said Jenny Jingle.
Stony, bumpty, bang and bolter,
"Give me carts!" said Johnny Jolter.
Slidy, glidy, jerky whiff-ter,
"Give me cars!" cried Sally Swifter.
Flipetty, cricketty, elegant go,
"Give me a buggy!" said Benjamin Beau.
"A fig for them all!" cried Trotty Malone,
"Give me a stout pair of legs of my own!"
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Don't trust Chatter, who whispers low,
And tells you stories of Prue and Joe.
Be sure when he whispers to Joe and Prue,
He'll tell them many a tale of you.
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