Crossword-Solution: PITTYPAT 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

PITTYPAT AND TIPPYTOE.[8] All day long they come and go-- Pittypat and Tippytoe; Footprints up and down the hall; Playthings scattered on the floor, Finger marks along the wall, Tell-tale smudges on the door;-- By these presents you shall know Pittypat and Tippytoe.

How they riot at their play; And a dozen times a day In they troop demanding bread-- Only buttered bread will do, And that butter must be spread Inches thick, with sugar, too; And I never can say "No, Pittypat and Tippytoe." Sometimes there are griefs to soothe, Sometimes ruffled brows to smooth, For (I much regret to say) Tippytoe and Pittypat Sometimes interrupt their play With an internecine spat; Fie, for shame; to quarrel so-- Pittypat and Tippytoe.

And when day is at an end There are little duds to mend; Little frocks are strangely torn, Little shoes great holes reveal, Little hose but one day worn, Rudely yawn at toe and heel; Who but _you_ could work such woe, Pittypat and Tippytoe? But when comes this thought to me "Some there are who childless be," Stealing to their little beds, With a love I cannot speak, Tenderly I stroke their heads-- Fondly kiss each velvet cheek.

ALL day long they come and go,-- Pittypat and Tippytoe; Footprints up and down the hall, Playthings scattered on the floor, Finger-marks along the wall, Tell-tale streaks upon the door,-- By these presents you shall know Pittypat and Tippytoe.

God help those who do not know A Pittypat or Tippytoe! On the floor, along the hall, Rudely traced upon the wall, There are proofs in every kind Of the havoc they have wrought; And upon my heart you'd find Just such trademarks, if you sought.