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    There was an old person of Bree,
    Who frequented the depths of the sea;
    She nurs’d the small fishes, and washed all the dishes,
    And swam back again into Bree.

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    There was an old person of Bromley,
    Whose ways were not cheerful or comely;
    He sate in the dust, eating spiders and crust,
    That unpleasing old person of Bromley.

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    There was an old person of Shields,
    Who frequented the vallies and fields;
    All the mice and the cats, and the snakes and the rats,
    Followed after that person of Shields.

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    There was an old man of Dunluce,
    Who went out to sea on a goose: 
    When he’d gone out a mile, he observ’d with a smile,
    “It is time to return to Dunluce.”

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    There was an old man of Dee-side
    Whose hat was exceedingly wide,
    But he said, “Do not fail, if it happen to hail,
    To come under my hat at Dee-side!”

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    There was an old person in black,
    A Grasshopper jumped on his back;
    When it chirped in his ear, he was smitten with fear,
    That helpless old person in black.

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    There was an old man of the Dargle
    Who purchased six barrels of Gargle;
    For he said, “I’ll sit still, and will roll them down hill,
    For the fish in the depths of the Dargle.”

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    There was an old person of Pinner,
    As thin as a lath, if not thinner;
    They dressed him in white, and roll’d him up tight,
    That elastic old person of Pinner.

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    There was an old person of China,
    Whose daughters were Jiska and Dinah,
    Amelia and Fluffy, Olivia and Chuffy,
    And all of them settled in China.

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    There was an old man in a Marsh,
    Whose manners were futile and harsh;
    He sate on a log, and sang songs to a frog,
    That instructive old man in a Marsh.

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    There was an old person of Brill,
    Who purchased a shirt with a frill;
    But they said, “Don’t you wish, you mayn’t look like a fish,
    You obsequious old person of Brill?”

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    There was an old person of Wick,
    Who said, “Tick-a-Tick, Tick-a-Tick;
    Chickabee, Chickabaw.”  And he said nothing more,
    That laconic old person of Wick.

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    There was an old man at a Station,
    Who made a promiscuous oration;
    But they said, “Take some snuff!—­You have talk’d quite enough,
    You afflicting old man at a Station!”

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