The little wife came trundling by in a wheelbarrow and was not upset; neither was the lady with "rings on her fingers and bells on her toes," as she cantered along on a rocking-horse.

"Bobby Shafto's" yellow hair shone finely as he led in the maid whom he came back from sea to marry.

"Miss Muffet," bowl in hand, ran away from an immense black spider, which waggled its long legs in a way so life-like that some of the children shook in their little shoes.

The beggars who came to town were out in full force, "rags, tags, and velvet gowns," quite true to life.

"Boy Blue" rubbed his eyes, with hay sticking in his hair, and tooted on a tin horn as if bound to get the cows out of the corn.