Finding an old child's poem

[birdbrained51]

Hi everyone, I am trying one last time to find an old poem I used to read when I was a young child. Where the book came from neither I nor my sisters can remember other than it had a very faded grey cover (which is no help whatsoever). Searching is proving fruitless as I cannot remember either the title, poet, or the full verses.

The poem was about a young child going on an errand for her mother remembering the list by reciting it as she goes along. Predictably she gets the items and amounts mixed up before she arrives at the shop.

The key words I have are 1lb of tea at 1/3d (old English weights and money) and jam, ham and eggs or pegs.

I hope there is someone in the forum who welcomes a challenge because this surely is one. Let me apologise now to anyone who tries to find this poem as it will be a frustrating search.

Thank you

[tailor STATELY]

Hi everyone, I am trying one last time to find an old poem I used to read when I was a young child. Where the book came from neither I nor my sisters can remember other than it had a very faded grey cover (which is no help whatsoever). Searching is proving fruitless as I cannot remember either the title, poet, or the full verses.

The poem was about a young child going on an errand for her mother remembering the list by reciting it as she goes along. Predictably she gets the items and amounts mixed up before she arrives at the shop.

The key words I have are 1lb of tea at 1/3d (old English weights and money) and jam, ham and eggs or pegs.

I hope there is someone in the forum who welcomes a challenge because this surely is one. Let me apologise now to anyone who tries to find this poem as it will be a frustrating search.

Thank you

Took but a moment: "Going on an Errand" link: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...2150850AAxaL8Z

Google key words you supplied: http://www.google.com/search?client=...utf-8&oe=utf-8