• The Guinea-Pig.

    There was a little guinea-pig,
    Who, being little, was not big;
    He always walked upon his feet,
    And never fasted when he eat.

    When from a place he ran away,
    He never at that place did stay;
    When he ran, as I am told,
    He never stood still through hot and cold.

    He often squeaked - and sometimes violent,
    And when he squeaked he never was silent;
    Though never told by a cat,
    He knew a mouse was not a rat.

    One day, as I am certified,
    He took a whim and fairly died;
    And, as I’m told by ones of sense,
    He never has been living since.