StoryTitle("caps", "Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
Page(63) ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "Dame Wiggins of Lee") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Was a worthy old soul,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "As e'er threaded a nee-") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "dle, or wash'd in a bowl:") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "She held mice and rats") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "In such antipa-thy;") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "That seven fine cats") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Kept Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "The rats and mice scared") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "By this fierce whisker'd crew,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "The poor seven cats") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Soon had nothing to do;") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "So, as any one idle") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "She ne'er loved to see, ") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "She sent them to school,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Did Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
Page(64) ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "The Master soon wrote") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "That they all of them knew") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "How to read the word \"milk\"") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "And to spell the word \"mew.\"") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "And they all washed their faces") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Before they took tea:") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "\"Were there ever such dears!\"") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Said Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "He had also thought well") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "To comply with their wish") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "To spend all their play-time") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "In learning to fish") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "For Stitlings; they sent her") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "A present of three,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "Which, fried, were a feast") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "For Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
Page(65) ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "But soon she grew tired") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Of living alone;") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "So she sent for her cats") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "From school to come home.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "Each rowing a wherry,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Returning you see:") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "The frolic made merry") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "The Dame was quite pleas'd,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "And ran out to market;") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "When she came back") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "They were mending the carpet.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "The needle each handled") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "As brisk as a bee;") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "\"Well done, my good cats,\"") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Said Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
Page(66) ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "To give them a treat,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "She ran out for some rice;") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "When she came back,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "They were skating on ice.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "\"I shall soon see one down,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Aye, perhaps, two or three,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "I'll bet half-a-crown,\"") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Said Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "When spring-time came back") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "They had breakfast of curds;") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "And were greatly afraid") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Of disturbing the birds.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "\"If you sit, like good cats,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "All the seven in a tree,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "They will teach you to sing!\"") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Said Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
Page(67) ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "So they sat in a tree,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "And said, \"Beautiful! Hark!\"") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "And they listened and looked") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "In the clouds for the lark.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "They sang, by the fireside,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Symphonious-ly,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "A song without words.") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "To Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "They called the next day") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "On a tomtit and sparrow,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "And wheeled a poor sick lamb") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Home in a barrow.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "\"You shall all have some sprats") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "For your human-ity,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "My seven good cats,\"") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Said Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
Page(68) ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "While she ran to the field,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "To look for its dam,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "They were warming the bed") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "For the poor sick lamb:") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "They turn'd up the clothes") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "All as neat as could be;") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "\"I shall ne'er want a nurse,\"") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Said Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "She wished them good-night,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "And went up to bed:") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "When, lo! in the morning,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "The cats were all fled.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "But soon—what a fuss!") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "\"Where can they all be?") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "Here, pussy, puss, puss!\"") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Cried Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
Page(69) ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "The Dame's heart was nigh broke,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "So she sat down to weep,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "When she saw them come back") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Each riding a sheep:") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "She fondled and patted") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Each purring Tom-my:") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "\"Ah! welcome, my dears,\"") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Said Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "The Dame was unable") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Her pleasure to smother;") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "To see the sick lamb") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Jump up to its mother.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "In spite of the gout,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "And a pain in her knee,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "She went dancing about:") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Did Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
Page(70) ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "The farmer soon heard") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Where his sheep went astray,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "And arrived at Dame's door") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "With his faithful dog Tray.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "He knocked with his crook,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "And the stranger to see,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "Out of window did look") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "For their kindness he had them") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "All drawn by his team;") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "And gave them some field-mice,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "And raspberry-cream.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "Said he, \"All my stock") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "You shall presently see;") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "For I honor the cats") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Of Dame Wiggins of Lee.\"") ?>
Page(71) ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "He sent his maid out") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "For some muffins and crumpets;") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "And when he turn'd round") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "They were blowing of trumpets.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "Said he, \"I suppose,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "She's as deaf as can be,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "Or this ne'er could be borne") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "By Dame Wiggins of Lee.\"") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "To show them his poultry,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "He turn'd them all loose,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "When each nimbly leap'd") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "On the back of a Goose,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "Which frighten'd them so") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "That they ran to the sea,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "And half-drowned the poor cats") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Of Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
Page(72) ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "For the care of his lamb,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "And their comical pranks,") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "He gave them a ham") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "And abundance of thanks.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "\"I wish you good-day,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "My fine fellows,\" said he;") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "\"My compliments, pray,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "To Dame Wiggins of Lee.\"") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "You see them arrived") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "At their Dame's welcome door;") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "They show her their presents,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "And all their good store.") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "\"Now come in to supper,") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "And sit down with me;") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "All welcome once more,\"") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "", "Cried Dame Wiggins of Lee.") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>