Once upon a time there were three little foxes 
Who didn’t wear stockings, and they didn’t wear 
        sockses, But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses, 
And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard 
        boxes. They lived in the forest in three little houses, 
And they didn’t wear coats, and they didn’t wear 
        trousies. 
They ran through the woods on their little bare 
        tootsies, 
And they played “Touch Last” with a family of 
        mouses. They didn’t go shopping in the High Street 
        shopses, 
But caught what they wanted in the woods and 
        copses. 
They all went fishing, and they caught three 
        wormses, 
They went out hunting, and they caught three 
        wopses. They went to a Fair, and they all won prizes — 
Tree plum-puddingses and three mince-pieses. 
They rode on elephants and swang on swingses, 
And hit three coco-nuts at coco-nut shieses. That’s all I know of the three little foxes 
Who kept their handkerchiefs in three little boxes. 
They lived in the forest in three little houses, 
But they didn’t wear coats and they didn’t wear 
        trousies, 
And they didn’t wear stockings and they didn’t 
        wear sockses.