XLVI.

[The tale of Simple Simon forms one of the chap-books, but the following verses are those generally sung in the nursery.]

Simple Simon met a pieman Going to the fair; 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 have not any."

Simple Simon went a fishing For to catch a whale: All the water he had got Was in his mother's pail.

[Illustration]

Punch and Judy, Fought for a pie, Punch gave Judy A sad blow on the eye.