| 1 | The author begins the preface that statement: "alas!" | |
| 2 | A bumble-bee stung one then there were five. | |
| 3 | Several years later, Zhang Kan alas a disease, leaving a hard to make ends meet youngest. | |
| 4 | Six little nigger boys playing with a hive; A bumble-bee stung one, and then there were five. | |
| 5 | Sonia Sotomayor may never win a Miss America pageant, but boohoo, she' s a Supreme Court justice. |