Little Dame Crump

Oh, little Dame Crump with her little hair broom
One morning was sweeping her little bed room
When casting her little gray eyes on the ground
In a sly little corner a penny she found.

Broom Sweeping,

"odd-dobbs,' cried the maid, and she starts with surprise,
'How lucky I am; bless me heart, what a prize!
"To the market I'll go and a pig I will buy
'And little John Gubbins shall build him a sty!'

Pig, Sus Scrofa Piglet Enjoying Box of Corn

So she washed her face clean and put on her gown,
And locked up her house and started for town.
To market she went and a bargain she made,
And for little white piggie a penny she paid.

Now the bargain was made she was puzzled to know
How they both would get home, as the pig would not go.
So fearing that piggie might play her a trick,
She drove him along with a little crab stick.

Piggie ran till he came to the foot of a hill
Where a little bridge crosses a stream from a mill,
There he grunted and squealed and no further would go.

Oh, fie, little piggie, to serve poor dame so!

Pig Near Pond By Barn

She went into the mill and borrowed a sack
Popped in the pig and took him on her back.
Piggie squealed to get out, but the little dame said,
'If you can't go by fair means, then you must be made.'

Domestic Pig in Sack, Mixed Breed, USA

She soon to the end of the journey did come,
She was mightily pleased to get piggie home.
She carried him right to his nice little sty,
And made him a bed of straw clean and dry.

With a handful of pease poor piggie she fed;
She popped on her nightcap and hyopped into bed.
Having first said her prayers, she blew out the light,
And being quite tired, we'll bid her goodnight.

Woman Sitting Up in Bed c.1635

Traditional: English
allposters

This is for Josh and Jon who like stories about little piggies

Get Well soon five little Deputy's
Love Mimi