I Had a Little Dog and They Called Him Buff
I had a little dog, and they called him Buff;
I sent him to the shop for a hap'orth* of snuff;
But he lost the bag, and spill'd the snuff:
"So take that cuff - and that's enough."
Notes
*Halfpennyworth
**A cuff is a hit with the hand open
Thanks and Acknowledgements
This rhyme can be found in The Nursery Rhyme Book, edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke (1897).
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