COUSIN GWEN
I like my cousin very much
Because of course one should;
She comes to spend the day with me
And stays to dinner and to tea,
And she is very good.
Her shining hair is smooth and neat,
She always wears a plait,
And French Translation she can do
And Algebra and Science too,
And clever things like that.
My Nanna thinks I ought to try
And copy Cousin Gwen;
But I could never be like her,
Indeed, indeed, I wish I were—
Excepting now and then.
THE BUTCHER
The butcher's shop is open wide
And everyone can see inside;
He stands behind the rows of meat
And gazes out into the street.
He always wears a coat of blue,
He has a linen apron too,
And with his knife he rather looks
Like ogres in the story-books.
He smiles and nods and says "Good-day"
If nurse and I go by that way
When we are shopping in the town—
I've never seen him sitting down.