PLAYING WITH FIRE
The friends of little Mary Green
Are now in deep distress,
The family will soon be seen
To wear a mournful dress.
It seems, from litter on the floor,
She had been lighting straws,
Which caught the muslin frock she wore,
A sad event to cause.
Her screams were loud and quickly heard,
And remedies applied,
But all in vain, she scarcely stirr'd
Again, before she died!
HOW TO HEAL A BURN
O, we have had a sad mishap!
As Clara lay in Nurse's lap,
Too near the fire the chair did stand—
A coal flew out and burnt her hand.