Compton MacKenzie

“ If you do, I'll say you have had more than one ice.
Mother said that you could? She said one of each?
You'd better look out or I'll jolly well peach.
You don't care if I do? All right, just you wait!
You'll tell Mrs. Jones we were not to be late?
I'm not pinching at all, you beastly young sneak!
You won't follow me round when we play hide and seek!
There's Dorothy! [E] Pax! You can eat what you like,
And to-morrow I'll give you a ride on my bike.
[B] Miss Perkins is our governess
[C] He's my brother
[D] Eliza is our housemaid
[E] She's an awfully decent girl I know. ”

“ That Miss Perkins [B] is laid up in bed with a cold—
It isn't my place—just you do as you're told.
I say, look at Frank, [C] he's behaving as though
He was playing with cads in a field full of snow;
He's sliding about on the slippery floor
All over the room with the kid from next door.
It's a jolly good thing that Miss Perkins' in bed,
They'll probably send old Eliza [D] instead. ”

“ And make the old burglar look awfully glum.
THE GERMAN BAND
I LOVE to lie in bed and hear
The jolly German band.
Why people do not care for it
I cannot understand.
They do not mind the orchestra.
And that makes far more noise;
They quite forget that music is
A thing that one enjoys.
When grown-up people come and call,
I have to play for them ”