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| Although, not one of Lear's better known works, this is a great fun. The duck buys socks, solving the problem of his feet being too cold for the kangaroo. | ||||||
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Said the Duck to the Kangaroo, Good gracious! how you hop! Over the fields and the water too, As if you never would stop! |
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My life is a bore in this nasty pond, And I long to go out in the world beyond! I wish I could hop like you!" Said the Duck to the Kangaroo. |
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"Please give me a ride on your back!" Said the Duck to the Kangaroo. "I would sit quite still, and say nothing but 'Quack,' The whole of the long day through! |
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And we'd go to the Dee, and the Jelly Bo Lee, Over the land, and over the sea;- Please take me a ride! O do!" Said the Duck to the Kangaroo. |
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Said the Kangaroo to the Duck, "This requires some little reflection; Perhaps on the whole it might bring me luck, And there seems but one objection, |
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Which is, if you'll let me speak so bold, Your feet are unpleasantly wet and cold, And would probably give me the roo- Matiz!" said the Kangaroo. |
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Said the Duck, "As I sat on the rocks, I have thought over that completely, And I bought four pairs of worsted socks Which fit my web-feet neatly. |
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And to keep out the cold I've bought a cloak, And every day a cigar I'll smoke, All to follow my own dear true Love of a Kangaroo!" |
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Said the Kangaroo, "I'm ready! All in the moonlight pale; But to balance me well, dear Duck, sit steady! And quite at the end of my tail!" |
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So away they went with a hop and a bound, And they hopped the whole world three times round; And who so happy,-O who, As the Duck and the Kangaroo? |
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