|FIVE little sparrows one sunny morn Eating their breakfast out in the
corn:
``Five little boys, cruel as boys can be,
``Longing to kill those birds blithe and free:
``Five little stones that whizzed in the air,
``And fell all at once where the sparrows were:
``Five little sparrows that flew safe away
``For sparrows are quicker than boys, any day:
``Five little boys that looked quite forlorn
``As they wandered on through the waving corn.=