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GOING ON AN ERRAND,

A POUND of tea at onc-and-three
And a pot of raspberry jam,
Two view-laid eggs, a do Ken pegs,
And a pound of rashers of Iiam,"

I ’ll say it over all the way,
And then I'm sure not to forget,
For if I chance to briny things wrong
My mother gets in such a pet,

" A pound of tea at one-and-thrce,
And a pot of raspberry jam,
Two now-laid eggs, a dozen pegs,
And a pound of rashers of hnm.”

There in the hay the children play—
They're having such jolly fun ;
I ’ll go there, too, that's what I ’ll do,
A s soon as my errands arc done.

“ A pound of tea at one-and-three,
A pot of-—cr— new-laid jam,
Two raspberry eggs, with a dozen pegs
And a pound of rashers of bam.1'

There's Teddy White a-tlying his kite,
He thinks himself grand, T declare;
I'd like to try to fly it sky high,
Ever so much higher
Than the old church spire,
And then— and then— but there—-

il A pound of three and on^ at tcar
A pot of new-laid jam