SILLY man went to the top of a hill,
One moonlight night in June;

And he loaded his gun with bullets of lead,
To shoot them at the moon.

But when he had got to the top of the hill,
To his surprise he found,

That the moon seem'd just as far away.
As it did from the ground.

And so angry was that poor silly man,
That he went clean out of his wits;

And he stuck up his hat, and shot at that,

Till he blew it all to bits.

And his treatment since by all his friends,
Has been most shockingly cruel;

For they keep the old soul in his own coal-hole,
And feed him on water-gruel.

HERE was a little Boy, and he had a little Dog;
And he taught that Dog to beg;

And that dear little Dog all dinner-time,
Would stand upon one leg.

One day to his master's great surprise,

That little Dog said, "Here goes,"
And he cock'd his hind-legs up in the air,
And stood upon his nose.

THE LITTLE DREAMER.

LITTLE Boy was dreaming
Upon his Nurse's lap,

That the pins fell out of all the stars,
And the stars fell into his cap.

So when his dream was over,

What should that little Boy do?
Why, he went and look'd inside his cap,
And found it wasn't true.

NCE upon a time, in a little wee house,

Lived a funny old Man and his Wife ;

And he said something funny to make her laugh,
Every day of his life.