StoryTitle("caps", "John Grumblie") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(95, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "John Grumblie vow'd by the light of the moon, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the green leaves on the tree,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That he could do more work in a day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Than his wife could do in three. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"With all my heart,\" his wife, Betty, said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"If that you will allow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To-morrow you 'll stay at home in my stead, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And I'll go drive the plow.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"But you must milk Tidy, the cow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For fear that she go dry;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And you must feed the little pigs ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That are within the sty.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And you must mind the speckled hen, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For fear she lay away;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And you must reel the spool of yarn ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That I spun yesterday.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The old woman took a staff in her hand, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And went to drive the plow;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her husband took a pail in his hand, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And went to milk the cow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Tidy hinched, and Tidy flinched, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Tidy broke his nose,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Tidy gave him such a blow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That blood ran down to his toes. ", "") ?>
PagePoem(96, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"High, Tidy! ho, Tidy! high, Tidy!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Tidy, stand thou still;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If ever I milk thee, Tidy, again, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "'T will be sore against my will.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He went to feed the little pigs ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That ran within the sty;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He hit his head against the beam, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And he made the blood to fly. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He went to mind the speckled hen, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For fear she'd lay astray;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he forgot to reel the yarn ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His wife spun yesterday.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So he swore by the sun, the moon, and the stars, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the green leaves on the tree,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If his wife ne'er did a day's work in her life, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She would ne'er be blamed by he!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "—Old Rhyme.") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>