Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913.

20. System

EVERY night my prayers I say,

And get my dinner every day;

And every day that I’ve been good,

I get an orange after food.

The child that is not clean and neat,

With lots of toys and things to eat,

He is a naughty child, I’m sure—

Or else his dear papa is poor.