Mr Jeremiah
Owned a pair of spotted
These he sold for two pounds
To Mr Robert Raymond
Who reared them in the lucerne
Owned by Mr Martin Maddox,
And sold them, when they grew to cows,
To Mr Donald David Dowse.
A grazier,
Mr Egbert Innes,
Bought them then for twenty guineas,
Milked the cows, and sold the
To Mr Stephen Evan Silk.
Who rents a butter
From Mr Laurence Lampard-Lee.
Here, once a week, come for his
The grocer,
Mr Roland Rutter,
Who keeps a shop in Sunny
Next door to Mr Peter Peat.
He every afternoon at
Sent his fair daughter,
Lucy Loo,
To Mr Rutter's shop to
Such things as were not priced too high,
Especially a shilling
Of "Fuller's Food for Folk Too Thin."This food was bought for Lucy Loo -A girl of charming manners,
Was much too pale and much too
To be a very pleasant sight.
When Lucy Loo beheld the
Stocked by Mr Roland Rutter,
She said, "I'll have a pound of that."She had it, and thenceforth grew fat.
We now we go back to Mr Jeffers,
Who sold the pair of spotted heifers.
He had a son,
James Edgar John,
A handsome lad to gaze upon,
Who had now reached that time of
When young men feel they need a wife;
But no young girl about the
Exactly had the kind of
That seemed to suit James Edgar John -A saddening thing to think upon,
For he grew sad and sick of
Because he could not find a wife.
One day young James was passing by(A look of sorrow in his eye)The shop of Mr Roland Rutter,
When Lucy Loo came out with butter.
At once James Edgar John said,
Is just the girl for me! She's fat."He offered her his heart and
And prospects of his father's land.
The Reverend Saul Sylvester
Performed the simple marriage rite.
The happy couple went their way,
And lived and loved unto this day.
Events cannot be far foreseen;
And all ths joy might not have
If Mr Jeremiah
Had kept his pair of spotted heifers.
