I'd time both or reading and spelling,
I gnawed up the whole of a play,
And carried it home to my dwelling.
"I wish you'd set fire to my place;
And pray you at once to despatch me,
That none of my enemy's race,
In the form of Miss Kitty, may catch me!"
Disgrace thus will follow on vice,
Although for a while it be hidden;
When children, or kittens, or mice,