(SECOND SERIES.)
XII.
CHERRY GARDENS.
Where d'ye buy your earrings,
Your pretty bobbing earrings,
Where d'ye buy your earrings,
Moll and Sue and Nan?
In the Cherry Gardens
They sell 'em eight a penny,
And let you eat as many
As ever you can.
Moll's are ruddy coral,
Sue's are glossy jet,
Nan's are yellow ivory,
Swinging on their stems.
O you lucky damsels
To get in Cherry Gardens
Earrings for your fardens
Comelier than gems!
XIII.
NEWINGTON BUTTS.
The bung is lost from Newington Butts!
The beer is running in all the ruts,
The gutters are swimming, the Butts are dry,
Lackadaisy! and so am I.
Who was the thief that stole the bung?
I shall go hopping the day he's hung!
XIV.
NINE ELMS.
Nine Elms in a ring:
In One I saw a Robin swing,
In Two a Peacock spread his tail,
In Three I heard the Nightingale,
In Four a White Owl hid with craft,
In Five a Green Woodpecker laughed,
In Six a Wood-dove croodled low,
In Seven lived a quarrelling Crow,
In Eight a million Starlings flew,
In Nine a Cuckoo said, "Cuckoo!"
"On Sale, 2,300 Oak barrels; edible: offers wanted."—Manchester Evening News.
Are these the first-fruits of the new Food Control?
From battalion orders:—
"Men transferred from Command Depôt will be fed up to the day of departure."
Even commanding officers occasionally have a glimpse of the obvious.
"In expressing regret that we had dropped the word 'culture' out of our vocabulary because of Germany, the Archdeacon of Middlesex gave the following definitions:—
'Kultur'—Had for 'Culture.'—A word its god the State, and which describes a was practically spirit of sympathy materialism, the result with all that is beaubeing simply mechanitiful, true, honest, cal efficiency, and pure."—Liverpool Echo.
Even now it is not very clear.
Jan (repeating the Question for the tenth time in two hours). "'AST SEEN OLD FURRIT THAT SOIDE, JARGE?"
Jarge (answering the question for the tenth time in two hours). "NOA. AIN'T YOU SEEN UN YOUR SOIDE?"
Jan. "NOA. DIDST PUT UN IN THY SOIDE?"
Jarge. "NOA. DID THEE NOT PUT UN IN THAT SOIDE?"
Jan. "NOA."
Jarge. "THEN I RECKON HE MUN BE IN THA BOX."