I sold my cow, and I bought me a calf;
I'd fain have made a fortune, but lost the best half:
With my wing wang, etc.
I sold my calf, and I bought me a cat;
A pretty thing she was, in my chimney-corner sat:
With my wing wang, etc.
I sold my cat, and I bought me a mouse;
He carried fire in his tail, and burnt down my house:
With my wing wang, etc.
DAME WIDDLE WADDLE.
Old Mother Widdle Waddle jumpt out of bed,
And out at the casement she popt out her head:
Crying the house is on fire, the grey goose is dead,
And the fox he is come to the town, oh!
THE MAD FOLKS OF THE MAD TOWN.
There was a mad man and he had a mad wife,
And they lived in a mad town:
And they had children three at a birth,
And mad they were every one.
The father was mad, the mother was mad,
And the children mad beside;
And they all got on a mad horse,
And madly they did ride.