_The pudding’s placed before his wife, Who shares his uneventful life. He chose her on the oddest ground, Because her views were all so sound._ _Their family consists of these-- Two pairs of twins, one set of threes, Besides two others later on Who followed quickly one by one._ _’Twas James and Wilhelmina who First broke on his enraptured view; Tom, Kate, and Anne succeeded soon And twins again the following June._ _When these arrived you might have thought They had as many as they ought, But no, they only said, “How nice,” And called them Gus and Beatrice._ _Two years elapsed till some one said, “Poor Mrs. Button is in bed.” She rose again and with her came An infant girl without a name._ _They called her Mary as Papa Desired it after Grandmama. And then when Alice came next year They named her from an aunt so dear._ _When little Herbert’s birth was past These parents brave had done at last. No more the task before them lay What names they at the font should say._ _From parents such as I describe Young children can no sin imbibe. Behold them, therefore, meek and good, All sitting waiting for their food._ _Sound common sense and upright deeds Will furnish all their daily needs. Temptation cannot make them stray; They much prefer the narrow way._ _A lively tongue perhaps inquires To what a Button’s mind aspires, And why on mutton should subsist, Or why indeed it should exist._ _I cannot say, but this is known That when the world is upside down, Amidst the wreck of all that’s stable The Buttons will be found at table._ _CHAPTER XIV_: HOUSE-MOVING