Volume 1 — HOW MANY LUMPS!
Reading edition
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.