[To be read to little boys and girls who quarrel with each other.] "Oho! Oho!" said the pot to the kettle, "You're dirty and ugly and black! Sure no one would think you were made of metal, Except when you're given a crack." "Not so! not so!" kettle said to the pot. "'Tis your own dirty image you see. For I am so clear, without blemish or blot, That your blackness is mirrored in me." |