Cut Up a Caper
Cut up a caper,
You’ve got a paper
And I’ve got a widget of string.
You be the army
And let nothing harm me
For I am the captain and king.
Illustration by Blanche Fisher Wright
First published in The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes (1918).
Childhood makes generals out of thin air. One scrap of paper becomes strategy, a string becomes treasure, and suddenly someone is king. No questions asked — because imagination outranks logic every time.
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