“Some day I will buy you a smaller broom.”

“Oh, thank you, Mother,” said Betty. “Buy me a little broom.”

“You shall have a little broom,” said Mother. “And tonight I will teach you and Bobby a song about broom girls who sold little brooms.”

For study and play:

The broom man maketh his living most sweet,

With carrying brooms from street to street;

Who would desire a pleasanter thing,

Than all the day long to do nothing but sing,

“New brooms, green brooms, will you buy any?

Come maidens, come quickly, let me make a penny”?