“You say you’ve got two ‘alley-tors’
And one small ‘commoney;’
Yet you’ve got seven! I pray you tell,
Youngster, how this may be?”
Then did the little boy reply,
“Seven marbles I possess;
Two, you observe, are ‘alley-tors’
And count for six—no less.”
“You cut along, my lively lad,
You’re gamesome, I can see;