“I am going a-shimmying, sir,” she said.

“And may I go with you my pretty maid?”

“If it so please you, sir,” she said.

“May I kiss you, my pretty maid?”

“What is your income, sir?” she said.

“Sunday morning, my pretty maid.”

“Kid somebody else, sir,” she said.

* * *

Dickory, dickory dock,

A mouse ran up the clock;