TRAGEDY OF THE EGG.

"Eating more than he was able,
Willie died at the breakfast table.
'If you please', said sister Meg,
'May I have his other egg?".

Willie in the best of sashes
Fell in the fire, was burnt to ashes.
Bye and bye the room grew chilly,
But no one cared to stir up Willie.

1933. With the Diggers 1914-1918. p.158.


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