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 Four subjects, and all of them male,
 * To doubled the knee,

They were once on a far larger scale,
 * But he'd eaten the balance, you see
 * ("Scale" and "balance" is punning, you see,)

There was haughty ,
 * There was lumbering ,

Despairing ,
 * And good little —
 * Exemplary.

One day there was grief in the crew,
 * For they hadn't a morsel of meat,

And
 * Was dying for something to eat—
 * "Come, provide me with something to eat!"

", famished I feel;
 * Oh, good little ,

Where on earth shall I look for a meal?
 * For I haven't no dinner to day!—
 * Not a morsel of dinner to-day!

"Dear, what shall we do?
 * Come, get us a meal, or in truth,

If you don't we shall have to eat you,
 * Oh, adorable friend of our youth!
 * Thou beloved little friend of our youth!"