Good King Hilary Looked at the beggarman, And laughed him three times three; And he turned that beggarman round about: "Your thews are strong, and your arm is stout; Come, throw me a Lord High Chancellor out, And take his place," quoth he. Of Hilary the Good and Great Old wives at Christmas time relate This tale, which points, at any rate, Two morals on the way. The first: "_Whatever Fortune brings, Don't be afraid of doing things._" (Especially, of course, for Kings.) It also seems to say (But not so wisely): "_He who begs With one red stocking on his legs Will be, as sure as eggs are eggs, A Chancellor some day._" SWING SONG Here I go up in my swing Ever so high. I am the King of the fields, and the King Of the town. I am the King of the earth, and the King Of the sky. Here I go up in my swing.... Now I go down. EXPLAINED Elizabeth Ann Said to her Nan: "Please will you tell me how God began? _Somebody_ must have made Him. So Who could it be, 'cos I want to know?" And Nurse said, "_Well!_" And Ann said, "Well? I know you know, and I wish you'd tell." And Nurse took pins from her mouth, and said, "Now then, darling, it's time for bed." Elizabeth Ann Had a wonderful plan: She would run round the world till she found a man Who knew _exactly_ how God began. She got up early, she dressed, and ran Trying to find an Important Man. She ran to London and knocked at the door Of the Lord High Doodelum's coach-and-four. "Please, sir (if there's anyone in), However-and-ever did God begin?" The Lord High Doodelum lay in bed, But out of the window, large and red, Came the Lord High Coachman's face instead. And the Lord High Coachman laughed and said: "Well, what put _that_ in your quaint little head?" Elizabeth Ann went home again And took from the ottoman Jennifer Jane. "Jenniferjane," said Elizabeth Ann, "Tell me _at once_ how God began." And Jane, who didn't much care for speaking, Replied in her usual way by squeaking. What did it mean? Well, to be quite candid, _I_ don't know, but Elizabeth Ann did. Elizabeth Ann said softly, "Oh! Thank you, Jennifer. Now I know." TWICE TIMES There were Two little Bears who lived in a Wood, And one of them was Bad and the other was Good. Good Bear learnt his Twice Times One-- But Bad Bear left all his buttons undone. They lived in a Tree when the weather was hot, And one of them was Good, and the other was Not. Good Bear learnt his Twice Times Two-- But Bad Bear's thingummies were worn right through.