Dreams

If children have been good all day,
And kept their tongues and lips quite clean,
They dream of flowes that nod and play,
And Faries dancing on the green.

But if they've spoke naughty words,
Or told a lie, they dream of rats:
Of crawling snakes, and ugly birds;
Of centipedes, and vampire bats.

Taken from an children's book circa 1896. There is NOTHING worse than ugly birds. Goodnight children.

Dreams from The Child World. London: John Lane. third edition. 1896. pp. 174.