Niece. " Hurrah, Auntie! Ted has been made a lance-corporal!"

Auntie. "I do wish Ted would be content with being a soldier, and not go in for these forms of notoriety."


NURSERY RHYMES OF LONDON TOWN.

XIX.—Haymarket.

I went up to the Hay-market upon a summer day,

I went up to the Hay-market to sell a load of hay—

To sell a load of hay and a little bit over,