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"Toys! toys! Penny Toys!
Toys for girls, and toys for boys! / Toys for dots who scarce can crawl, / Toys for youngsters stout and tall, / Toys for prince and peasant too, / Toys, my dears, for all of you! / Toys for girls and toys for boys! / Toys! toys! Penny Toys!"
That is how the toyman talks, / As through London Town he walks; / Bawling out his toyman's song, / While he slowly moves along, / On the pavement with a tray / Which is filled, from day to day, / With new toys to catch the eye / Of the youthful passer-by.
Sometimes it's a great big spider, / Like that Miss Muffet had beside her; / Sometimes it's a bat that flies, / Or a baby doll that cries; / Sometimes it's a frog that leaps, / Or a crocodile that creeps: / But whatever toy is shown, / For a penny it's your own.