Ten small chicks and one old biddy!
"Cluck!" says Biddy, "cluck, cluck, cluck!"
"Scratch as I do!—try your luck!"
How the chickens, one and all,
Crowd around her at her call!
One chick, missing, peeps to say:
"Chirp, chirp, chirp!—I've lost my way!"
Shrill and shriller, comes the sound!
"Chirp! chirp! chirp!—I shall be drowned!"