“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—