HOW A STREET WAS NAMED

JOSIAH F. KIMBALL

I can remember very well

A tale the old folks used to tell,

Of how a street well known to fame

Received its somewhat curious name.

The oven then, so long ago,

Was built outside the house; and so

While the good wife was getting dinner,

There came along a tramping sinner,

Who, having not the fear of man,

Opened the oven door and ran !

The pudding had so much of heat,

He quickly dropped it in the street:

And fearing in that place to stay.

Kicked it before him in his way.

The pudding-bag so firm at first,

By violence at last was burst; -

And ever since that wicket feat,

The thoroughfare is Pudding Street .

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