Living

Halloo, Old Scuttle, Where's Your Coal?

by Mary Mapes Dodge 1831–1905

From Rhymes and Jingles (1875)

Living

Halloo, old scuttle! good old soul,
What's become of all your coal?
"Why the tongs he came with a gobbledy-gun,
And took my coals out, one by one;
And the blaze ran in with a tricksy-spire
And set the pretty things a-fire;
And the blower came with a roaring-roar,
And made them burn up more and more;
And then the poker with koppitty-hop,
He poked their ashes and made 'em drop--
And that, O Gobbledy-Koppitty-dole!
Is what's become of all my coal."

MLA

Dodge, Mary Mapes. “Halloo, Old Scuttle, Where's Your Coal?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dodge_mm/99/.

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Dodge, Mary Mapes. “Halloo, Old Scuttle, Where's Your Coal?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dodge_mm/99/.

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