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Peter Prickett.

ITTLE Peter Prickett, didn't he love cricket!

Wasn't he a bowler! wasn't he a batter!

He could hold a wicket,-he could stop a ball;

Wasn't he a famous chap, the champion of us all!

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
'Let me taste your ware.'

Says the pieman to Simple Simon,
Show me first your penny.'
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
'Indeed I've not got any."

Simple Simon caught the pieman
Coming from the fair.

Simple Simon hails the pieman,—

'I would taste your ware.'

'But,' says the pieman to Simple Simon,

'Pies I've not got any.

Oh, bad luck!' says Simple Simon,

"'Cause I've found a penny.'

My Mother and your Mother.

Y mother and your mother went over the way;

MY

Says my mother to your mother, 'It's chop-o'-nose day!'

I since have discovered the cause of the fray,

They both went to 'the public' with nothing to pay.

USH! and don't make a noise, poor Dolly's ill;

H Send for a lawyer, for she would make her will.

Hush! and don't make a noise, poor Dolly's ill;
Send for a doctor, and let him make a pill.
Hush! and don't make a noise, dear Dolly's better;
Send for the cook now to make an apple fritter.

Michaelmas.

MIND you remember,

Tow'rds the end of September,

To buy some fat geese, and to stuff 'em;
For when they're in season

'Tis almost high treason

To shun goose-if 'tisn't a tough 'un.

The Old Soldier.

'M an old soldier, miss, yet forced to beg;

I'M

I've but one arm, miss, I've but one leg;

I've very few teeth, miss, and feel their loss at dinner.

I was stout and hearty once, now I can't be thinner,
Pray bestow your alms, miss, on a poor old soldier man :
We fight for home and beauty, miss, as long as e'er we can.

Fack Sprat.

ACK SPRAT could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean;

But, somehow or other, betwixt the two the platter's polished clean. Jack Sprat was tall and fat, his wife was small and mean:

'Twas laughing that had made him fat; 'twas scolding kept her lean!

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The Hedgehog.

ITTLE Neddy Nichols caught a hedgehog full of prickles,

That curled itself into a funny ball;

But he dropped it in a pail, when out came its head and tail,

And it swam around, and tried thereout to crawl.