A trick that everyone
In little girls is slamming doors.
A wealthy banker's little
Who lived in Palace Green,
Bayswater(By name Rebecca Offendort),
Was given to this furious sport.
She would deliberately
And slam the door like billy-o!
To make her Uncle Jacob start.
She was not really bad at heart,
But only rather rude and wild;
She was an aggravating child…It happened that a marble
Of Abraham was standing
Above the door this little
Had carefully prepared to slam,
And down it came!
It knocked her flat!
It laid her out!
She looked like that.
Her funeral sermon (which was
And followed by a sacred song)Mentioned her virtues, it is true,
But dwelt upon her vices too,
And showed the dreadful end of
Who goes and slams the door for fun.
The children who were brought to
The awful tale from far and
Were much impressed, and inly
They never more would slam the door,— As often they had done before.
