_There's wind on the river and wind on the hill_.... There's a dark dead water-wheel under the mill! I saw a fly which had just been drowned-- And I know where a rabbit goes into the ground! But every one says, "Run along!" (Run along, run along!) All of them say "Yes, dear," and never notice me. Every one says, "Run along, There's a little darling!" If I'm a little darling, why won't they come and see? DOWN BY THE POND _I'm fishing._ Don't talk, anybody, don't come near! Can't you see that the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny sort of thing, _But he doesn't know I'm fishing-- He doesn't know I'm fishing._ That's what I'm doing-- Fishing. _No, I'm not, I'm newting._ Don't cough, anybody, don't come by! Any small noise makes a newt feel shy. He thinks I'm a bush, or a new sort of tree; He thinks it's somebody, but doesn't think it's Me, _And he doesn't know I'm newting-- No, he doesn't know I'm newting._ That's what I'm doing-- Newting. THE LITTLE BLACK HEN Berryman and Baxter, Prettiboy and Penn And old Farmer Middleton Are five big men.... And all of them were after The Little Black Hen. She ran quickly, They ran fast; Baxter was first, and Berryman was last. I sat and watched By the old plum-tree.... She squawked through the hedge And she came to me. The Little Black Hen Said "Oh, it's you!" I said "Thank you, How do you do? And please will you tell me, Little Black Hen, What did they want, Those five big men?" The Little Black Hen She said to me: "They want me to lay them An egg for tea. If they were Emperors, If they were Kings, I'm much too busy To lay them things." "I'm not a King And I haven't a crown; I climb up trees, And I tumble down. I can shut one eye, I can count to ten, So lay me an egg, please, Little Black Hen." The Little Black Hen said, "What will you pay, If I lay you an egg For Easter Day?" "I'll give you a Please And a How-do-you-do, I'll show you the Bear Who lives in the Zoo, I'll show you the nettle-place On my leg, If you'll lay me a great big Eastery egg."