Jack Jingle

Jack Jingle went ‘prentice

            To make a horse-shoe,

He wasted the iron

            Till it would not do.

His master came in,

            And started to rail;

Says Jack, ‘The shoe’s spoiled,

            But ‘twill still make a nail.’

He tried at the nail

            But, chancing to miss,

Says, ‘If it won’t make a nail,

            It shall yet make a hiss.’

Then into the water

            Threw the hot iron, smack!

‘Hiss!’ quoth the iron;

‘I thought so,’ said Jack.

Source: Silver Bells