Did you think that Josephine Maud was asleep,

Lying down there on the floor in a heap?

Oh, deary me, no! you have made a mistake;

Josephine Maud was quite wide awake.

Then why did she lie there, so long, and so still?

I can’t bear to tell you, and yet—well, I will;

Josephine Maud was a sad, bad girl,

She threw down her doll with a toss and a whirl:

She crushed its pink nose, she tore off its wig,