There might be Guava jelly, and a plummy cake, For such a prize I'd laugh to scorn a stomach-ache!
With these words he put down the dish, with the 'plummy' end of the pudding turned towards himself.
The plummy little dark-eyed one, Will—not that shrill little fiend.
But it is easy to overdo the plummy tone, which is apt to become cloying.
