He's my baby and I prize him I've kept him in his bed Till he was two years grown I've fed him on ox blood An dry bone-meal And now he is ready to be shown Who am I? From his plate up to his bu*ton His body is pure white And full six inches long He stands proud with rest Puts flags out east and west With a crown of green herring-bone Who am I? I show him to neighbours Who auction him away But I buy him back again I chop up his children And feed them to my own As he shivers out in the winter rain Who am I?