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.