For this Piggie, you see,

Betwixt you and me,

Was the one that he’d fallen in love with one night.

“The Piggie looked shy when she saw him sit there,

And turned to go back with a most confused air,

When he ventured to say,

In a stammering way,

‘Pray will you not rest for a while, lady fair?

“She timidly came and sat down by his side;

And to make some remarks on the weather, he tried.