Living
Trotty Malone
From Rhymes and Jingles (1875)
Living
Boys and girls, come riddle and ravel,
Tell us how you would like to travel.
Crispy, crackly, snow and tingle,
"Give me sleighs!" said Jenny Jingle.
Stony, bumpty, bang and bolter,
"Give me carts!" said Johnny Jolter.
Slidy, glidy, jerky whiff-ter,
"Give me cars!" cried Sally Swifter.
Flipetty, cricketty, elegant go,
"Give me a buggy!" said Benjamin Beau.
"A fig for them all!" cried Trotty Malone,
"Give me a stout pair of legs of my own!"
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MLA
Dodge, Mary Mapes. “Trotty Malone.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dodge_mm/170/.
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Dodge, Mary Mapes. “Trotty Malone.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dodge_mm/170/.
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