Little Jim Comments

Well over 70 years ago my Nanny (Grandma) used to recite this poem to us. I am the only one that can remember it. I loved it so much and found it so sad.

My Nain {grandma] use to recite this poem when I was just a child I'm 79 now. It was so sad and poignant but I loved it so i was always asking her to say it again. All her 12 children were fond of it

My grandad used to recite a parody of this when I was a child in the 1950s. I didn’t know it was a parody at the time! The sausage was a fat one, Its outside was all skin, And inside was the mystery Of the dog called Little Jim.

My father was a collier and used to recite this poem to me when i was a young lad. I think he would have heard it from his father because it is so sad....I am in my 70, s now and did not die as a lad but how i still think of my dear collier dad.... PRB.

This was one of the 1st poems l learnt over 60 years ago.