How many lumps of sugar
Ought a little girl to use
To sweeten a cup of chocolate?
I can take just what I choose.
Five make it just like candy,
And four are most as good--
There's no one to say I mustn't,
Now I wonder if I should.
Three is what Nurse allows me,
So that would be surely right.
Uncle Jack takes two lumps always
And says it is "out of sight."
Five, four, three, two--I wonder--
Or none, just like Papa?
Well, after all, I'll take but one
And copy my dear Mama.
[Illustration: From the painting by H. Morisset.
By permission of the artist.]