What a treat, a delightful treat, 't will be!"
"Yes, a nice thing, too, for the babies, my dears,—
But, alas, there is but one!" cried she.
"I saw them passing it round, and then
They said it was only fit for men!
What woman would know
How to make the thing go?
There was not a man so foolish to dream
That any woman could sew up a seam!"
Oh, then there was babbling and screaming, my dears!