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Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean;
And so betwixt them both,
They lick'd the platter clean.
Kate Greenaway's illustration (2nd) above is pretty, but Richardson got the spirit of the rhyme just right in his illustration at the top of the page! The 3rd illustration can be found in The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright.
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Below is the version from The Little Mother Goose (1912), illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. This version includes a "Moral"...
Jack Spratt could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean,
And so, betwixt them both, you see,
They licked the platter clean.
MORAL:
Better to go to bed supperless than to rise in debt.
The first illustration is from Mother Goose, The Original Volland Edition (1915), edited and arranged by Eulalie Osgood Grover and illustrated by Frederick Richardson (with some graphical editing by Mama Lisa) and the second illustration comes from Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose (1881).
