Young Canada's Nursery Rhymes. Various

little mice sat in a barn to spin;

      Pussy came by, and popped her head in;

      "Shall I come in, and cut your threads off?"

      "Oh, no, kind sir, you will snap our heads off!"

      Needles and pins, needles and pins,

      When a man marries his trouble begins.

      Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John,

      He went to bed with his stockings on;

      One shoe off, and one shoe on,

      Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John.

      All of a row, bend the bow;