Three miles a league, our Teachers say, Two pints will make a quart Of brandy, wine, or gin; Four quarts will make a gallon full; Ten gallons will an anker fill, Two hogsheads then will fill a pipe; 1 Quart. 1 Gallon. 1 Anker. 1 Runlet. 1 Hogshead. 1 Pipe. 1 Tun. But those who practice drinking much, Two pints will make one quart of beer, Four quarts one gallon, which does cost Two kilderkins one barrel make, Two pints, we are told, make one quart of seed, Two pottles do make one gallon, we see, Two gallons of corn make one peck, my young friends, Four pecks they will make one bushel, we know, Five quarters one wey, of good oats, nice and sweet, The price you must ask, when you 're wishing to buy. How great is the sin, when we use a false weight! Sixty seconds make a minute, Let's improve it while we may. When the Sabbath bells do sound. Months* have each four weeks, we know ; Time, how quiokly does it run! Thirteen such will make a year, While we move around the sun. January's when cold winds do blow; September, the harvest fields are clear; October's when they brew nice beer; November's dreary days are here; I MULTIPLICATION TABLE IN VERSE. (Church Bells.) Three threes are nine, three fours are twelve, And three times six are just eighteen, Which wants two of a score. And three times seven are twenty-one, And three times nine are twenty-seven, Four fours are sixteen pretty deer, And four times six are twenty-four But four times eight are thirty-two; Well, five times eight are forty girls, Now six times six are thirty-six And six times eight are forty-eight, We here are safe from harm; And six times nine are fifty-four, What's useful, too, we learn. |