Twelve huntsmen with horns and hounds, Hunting over other men's grounds; Eleven ships sailing o'er the main, Some bound for France and some for Spain: I wish them all safe home again; Ten comets in the sky, Some low and some high; Nine peacocks in the air: I wonder how they all came there? I do not know and I do not care; Eight joiners in Joiners' Hall, Working with the tools and all; Seven lobsters in a dish, As fresh as any heart could wish; Six beetles against the wall, Close by an old woman's apple-stall; Five puppies of our dog Ball, Who daily for their breakfast call; Four horses stuck in a bog, Three monkeys tied to a clog; Two pudding-ends would choke a dog, With a gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog.

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