“My dears, whatever are you at?
You ought to be at home;
I told you not to wet your feet,
I told you not to roam.
Oh, dear! I’m sure you will be drowned,
I never saw such tricks;
Come home at once and go to bed,
You naughty, naughty chicks!”
Now most of them were five days old,
But one, whose age was six—