And Cricket cleared her throat, and began:——
“A big, black cannibal lived by the sea,
And he was black as he could be,
And he ate up children, one, two, three.
“One day he found a little child,
A little white one, meek and mild,
And the little boy looked up and smiled.
“‘Oh, don’t you know it’s wrong,’ said he,
‘To eat a little child like me?
And God won’t love you then, you see.