Girls.
Who are supposedly the sweetest most loveable angels
in all the whole wide world ?
But who are sometimes the toughest for parents to tame
than cutely precocious girls ?
Better examples noone could find of forgetting clothes
or losing notices of classes and terms
or leaving behind school homework
or getting away with going to bed lots later than told
or hiding a half-eaten breadcrust
or hardly seen using a toothbrush
or adopting brassiness when not doing as asked
or staying in bathrooms for far too long
or laying the blame on innocent brothers
or taking by guile Mum\'s lipstick for fun-masks
or jumping in mud then wanting rescue
or refusing to answer \" a silly question\".
Well top marks for guessing who fits best description
and points lost if stating a name.
Parents tear hair out when newly born females insist
from the start on score-making
for there is no offspring knows better about curling
fathers round little fingers than girls.