A whole life told across seven days, born on Monday, buried by Sunday. It's a neat way to practise the days of the week, though the ending moves quickly through illness and death, so it's worth a read-through first.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Solomon Grundy,
Born on a Monday,
Christened on Tuesday,
Married on Wednesday,
Took ill on Thursday,
Worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday,
Buried on Sunday.
This is the end
Of Solomon Grundy.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition