And get tiles for your roofs, I pray;

For I know, of old, Mr. Reynard’s tricks,

And I fear he may come any day.”

Thus saying, she died, and her daughters fair,—

Gobble, Goosey, and Ganderee,—

Agreed together, that they would beware

Of Mr. Fox, their enemy.

But Gobble, the youngest, I grieve to say,

Soon came to a very bad end,