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Rhymes and Jingles  175

Second form:—

Question: What’s your name ?
Answer: Pudden tame.
Question: What’s your natur’?
Answer: Pudden tater.
Question: What’s your will ?
Answer: Pudden swill.

Third form:—

Question: What’s your name?
Answer: Pudden tame.
Question: What’s your other?
Answer: Bread and butter.
Question: Where do you live?
Answer: In a sieve.
Question: What's your number?
Answer: Cucumber.

Crowing hens and jumping sheep
Are the worst property a farmer can keep.

Boys often say it in this way:—

Whistling girls and crowing hens
Always come to some bad ends.

Another version is:—

Whistling girls and blatting sheep
Are the worst property a farmer can keep.