3-071-218 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

In the Nursery: Tottie, Tot, and Toozles - from a photograph by J. Thomson, 1881. 'I say, Tot! Now don't you think You would like to eat and drink From a spoon and cup of gold, And a dish of silver plate, Not thin soup and porridge cold, Something nice and deli-cate: 'Talian jumbles, nougat, creams, Choc'lat's, strawb'ries, tipsy cake; And be asked what you will take? Not stuck up in nurseries, But to sit just as you please, 'Stead of dinners such as these? Not to have a breakfas' time, But things there, and take a bit When you seem to fancy it; When you don't, - to go and play, - Lots of toys, - out ev'ry day, - Not to bed without a light, - Up to supper ev'ry night'. T. Archer. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.