Little Mizzi Muffet and the Spider King

A man with a nickel, a sword, and a sickle, a pipe, and a paper of pins

Set out for the Niger to capture a tiger– and that’s how my story begins.

When he saw the wide ocean, he soon took a notion ‘t would be nicer to stay with his friends.

So he traded his hat for a tortoise-shell-cat– and that’s how the chronicle ends.