The Work-bag.
Reading edition
Come here, I’ve got a piece of rag,
To make you quite a pretty bag;
Not make believe—no, no, you’ll see
The clever bag that it shall be.
And when ’tis done, I’ll show you what
A handsome present I have got:
A needle-book, and scissors too,
Right earnest ones, and all for you.
And then, you know, you’ll keep them in it,
So that you need not lose a minute,
In hunting up and down to say,
“Where can my scissors be to-day?”
“Pray, somebody, do try and look,
To find my thread and needle-book;”
No, no, but—“I know where they are.
They’re in my little work-bag there.”