A cake, a halfpenny, and the old game of skimming stones across water, once called ducks and drakes, all tumble together in this playful, slightly nonsensical rhyme.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
A duck and a drake,
And a halfpenny cake,
With a penny to pay the old baker.
A hop and a scotch
Is another notch,
Slitherum, slatherum, take her.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition