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Who is this in the Weighing Chair?
Why, little Dot, I do declare! / Three stone five! "So much as that?" / Calls out Miss Dot; "then I "must" be fat!"
On this and the opposite page you see / Dot's mother, and brother, and sisters three. / They wait for an underground train to come / And carry them swiftly back to their home.
Wonderful trains! From morn till night, / Clattering through tunnels without daylight, / Hither and thither they run, up and down, / Beneath the streets of London Town.
Many prefer these trains instead / Of the cabs and "Busses" overhead, / For they run much faster than horses can. / Miss Dot's papa is a busy man,
And goes to the City every day / By the "Underground," -- the quickest way: / And One Hundred Millions of people, 'tis found, / Are carried each year by the "Underground."