A Treasury of Pleasure Books for Young People

With hartshorn in hand came Doctor Tomtit, Saying, "Really, good sirs, it's only a fit."

"You're right, Doctor Tit, The truth I've no doubt of; But death is a fit

Folks seldom get out of."

Doctor Cat says, "Indeed,

I don't think she's dead;

I believe, if I try,

She yet might be bled."

"I think, Puss, you're foolish," then says Doctor Goose; "For to bleed a dead Wren can be of no use."

Doctor Owl then declared that the cause of her death, He really believed, was the want of more breath.