Charitable Louisa

Now Goody Brown and Widow Bond Live in a Cottage near the Pond, And so, Louisa, you Must now this little Basket take And put in it a Loaf, a Cake, A Pound of Sugar too.

Nay! do not frown, ’tis surely good That we the Agêd succour should? Your Shawl and Bonnet don, See, with you faithful Ponto comes, Perhaps a liking for the Crumbs Has urg’d him to go on.

So onward trips the little Maid, All smiling sweet, and unafraid Of Gipsies, Tramps and Cows. Then back she comes, while Goody stands And raising up her wither’d Hands Calls down her Prayers and Vows.