They're English—quite English, and easy to handle,
Won't raise horrid noises and anger the House.
They're pleasant to see and delightful to dandle,
And Nana opines that, with nursery nous,
They'll be got "nicely off"—if she makes no mistakes—
Before that Hibernian worry awakes.
"To market, to market, to buy a fat piggy!
(But O, not a poor Irish pig—in a poke!)"
So pipes Nana Gladstone so jocund and jiggy
She ekes out her Nursery lilt with a joke.