. Rhymes and jingles .. . THE SUNNY OLD LADY. Now, children take your choice Of the food your hearts shall eat;There are sourish thoughts, and brimstone thoughts, And thoughts all good and sweet ; And whatever the heart feeds on, Dear children, trust to me,Is precisely what this queer old world Will seem to you to be. 58 RHYMES AND JINGLES. BILLY POOR Billy boy was music mad, Oh music mad was he ;And yet he was as blithe a ladAs any lad could be —-With a hi-de-diddle,Bow and fiddle,Rig-a-my, ho ! sang he - BILLY BOY. 59 For Billy was as blithe a ladAs any lad could be. Nobody knows the j


. Rhymes and jingles .. . THE SUNNY OLD LADY. Now, children take your choice Of the food your hearts shall eat;There are sourish thoughts, and brimstone thoughts, And thoughts all good and sweet ; And whatever the heart feeds on, Dear children, trust to me,Is precisely what this queer old world Will seem to you to be. 58 RHYMES AND JINGLES. BILLY POOR Billy boy was music mad, Oh music mad was he ;And yet he was as blithe a ladAs any lad could be —-With a hi-de-diddle,Bow and fiddle,Rig-a-my, ho ! sang he - BILLY BOY. 59 For Billy was as blithe a ladAs any lad could be. Nobody knows the joy I know, Or sees the sights I see,So play me high, or play me low, My fiddles enough for takes me here, it takes me there —> So play me low or high —It finds me, binds me anywhere, And lifts me to the a hi-de-diddle,Bow and fiddle, Rig-a-my, ho ! sang he —•For Billy was as blithe a lad As any lad could be.


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