Say Please.

“No, not a bit of breakfast, For chickens big or small; Until you ask politely, No single grain shall fall. So, say Please, if you please, Any way you want to, With a cluck, cluck; peep, peep; Or cock-a-doodle-doo; With a caw-caw; quack, quack; Say any one of these; I am not particular. If it only means please.” Mr. Rooster, Mrs. Hen, Set a good example, Show the other ones the way With a little sample Of your Please, if you please, Any way you choose to, Crow or cluck, peep or caw, Else I must refuse you; Breakfast will be dinner, Unless you all make haste; “And your dinner will be supper, Before you get a taste.” Then up spoke Mr. Rooster, And crowed his very best; “Cluck, cluck,” said Mrs. Hen, and then Soon followed all the rest. It was “Caw! Caw! Cock-a-doo!” In voices high and deep, The big ones crowed and cawed, The little ones cried “Peep,” But everything meant “Please, We want our breakfast, please,” Till Nellie said “I never knew Of chicks polite as these.”