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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license + + +Title: Kensington Rhymes + +Author: Compton Mackenzie + +Illustrator: J.R. Monsell + +Release Date: March 13, 2012 [EBook #39128] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KENSINGTON RHYMES *** + + + + +Produced by Chuck Greif from scanned pages available at +the Internet Archive. + + + + + + +</pre> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/cover_lg.jpg"> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="400" height="550" alt="image of the book's cover" title="image of the book's cover" /></a> +</p> + +<p class="cb">KENSINGTON RHYMES</p> + +<p><a name="page_001" id="page_001"></a></p> + +<p><a name="page_002" id="page_002"></a></p> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_front_lg.jpg"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_front.jpg" width="545" height="550" alt="THE PUNCH AND JUDY SHOW" title="THE PUNCH AND JUDY SHOW" /></a> +<br /> +<span class="caption">THE PUNCH AND JUDY SHOW</span> +</p> + +<p><a name="page_003" id="page_003"></a></p> + +<div class="boxt"> +<h1>K E N S I N G T O N<br /> +<big>R H Y M E S</big><br /> +<small>BY COMPTON MACKENZIE</small><br /> +<small><small>ILLUSTRATED BY J. R. MONSELL</small></small></h1> + +<div class="boxm"> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +</div> + +<p class="cb">LONDON: MARTIN SECKER<br /> +NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI</p> +</div> + +<p><a name="page_004" id="page_004"></a></p> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + +<p class="c"><small>First published 1912<br /> +P<small>RINTED BY</small><br /> +BALLANTYNE & COMPANY LTD<br /> +AT THE BALLANTYNE PRESS<br /> +TAVISTOCK STREET COVENT GARDEN<br /> +LONDON</small></p> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + +<p><a name="page_005" id="page_005"></a></p> + +<p class="cb">TO<br /> +ETHEL LONG</p> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p><a name="page_006" id="page_006"></a></p> + +<p><a name="page_007" id="page_007"></a></p> + +<h2>CONTENTS</h2> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" summary="CONTENTS"> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right"><small>PAGE</small></td></tr> + +<tr><td>OUR HOUSE</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_011">11</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>OUR SQUARE</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_015">15</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>THE DANCING CLASS</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_017">17</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>MY SISTER AT A PARTY</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_022">22</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>KISSING GAMES</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_026">26</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>A BALLAD OF THE ROUND POND </td><td align="right"><a href="#page_028">28</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>TOWN AND COUNTRY</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_035">35</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>POOR LAVENDER GIRLS</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_037">37</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>SUMMER HOLIDAYS</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_039">39</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>THE UNPLEASANT MOON</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_042">42</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>SUGGESTIONS ABOUT SLEEP</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_044">44</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>THE RARE BURGLAR</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_047">47</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>THE GERMAN BAND</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_049">49</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>THE DECEITFUL RAT-TAT</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_053">53</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>THE CAGE IN THE PILLAR BOX</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_054">54</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>THE FORTUNATE COALMEN</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_057">57</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>THE PAVEMENT ARTIST</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_060">60</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>SWEEPS</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_063">63</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>GREENGROCERS</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_065">65</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>CHRISTMAS NOT FAR OFF</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_066">66</a><a name="page_008" id="page_008"></a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>THE DISAPPOINTMENT</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_067">67</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>TREASURE TROVE</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_068">68</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>A VISIT TO MY AUNT</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_073">73</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>DON QUIXOTE</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_077">77</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>THE WET DAY</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_084">84</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>LAST WORDS</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_087">87</a><a name="page_009" id="page_009"></a></td></tr> +</table> + +<h1>KENSINGTON RHYMES</h1> + +<p><a name="page_010" id="page_010"></a></p> + +<p><a name="page_011" id="page_011"></a></p> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_011_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_011.png" width="450" height="455" alt="OUR HOUSE" title="OUR HOUSE" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">OUR house is very high and red,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The steps are very white,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The balcony is full of flowers,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The knocker's very bright.<a name="page_012" id="page_012"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The hall has got a coloured lamp,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">A rack for father's hat,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And pegs for coats: a curious word<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a><br /></span> +<span class="i3">Is printed on the mat.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The kitchen ticks too loud at night,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">It is a horrid place;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Black-beetles run about the floor<br /></span> +<span class="i3">At a most dreadful pace.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The cellar is quite black with coal,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The cat goes scratching there;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">People go tramping past above,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">But nobody knows where.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The dining-room has rosy walls,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And silver knives and forks,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And when I listen at the door,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I hear the popping corks.<a name="page_013" id="page_013"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The library smells like new boots,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">It is a woolly room;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The housemaid comes at eight o'clock<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And sweeps it with a broom.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The staircase has a thousand rods<br /></span> +<span class="i3">That rattle if you kick,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And when the twilight makes it blue<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I rush up very quick.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The landing is a dismal place,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The bannisters creak so,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The door-knobs twinkle horribly,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The gas is always low.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The drawing-room is cold and white,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The chairs have crooked legs;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Silk ladies rustle in and out<br /></span> +<span class="i3">While Fido sits and begs.<a name="page_014" id="page_014"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The bathroom is a trickling room,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And always smells of paint,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The cupboard's full of medicine<br /></span> +<span class="i3">For fever, cold or faint.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">My bedroom is a brassy room<br /></span> +<span class="i3">With pictures on the wall:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">It's rather full of nurse's clothes<br /></span> +<span class="i3">But then my own are small.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Our house is very high and red,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The steps are very white,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The balcony is full of flowers,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The knocker's very bright.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="c"><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> Nobody knows what SALVE means</p></div> + +<p><a name="page_015" id="page_015"></a></p> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_015_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_015.png" width="450" height="332" alt="OUR SQUARE" title="OUR SQUARE" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">OUR square is really most select,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Infectious children, dogs and cats<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Are not allowed to come inside,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Nor any people from the flats.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I have a sweetheart in the square,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I bring her pebbles that I find,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And curious shapes in mould, and sticks,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And kiss her when she does not mind.<a name="page_016" id="page_016"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">She wears a dress of crackling white,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">A shiny sash of pink or blue,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And over these a pinafore,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And she comes out at half-past two.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Her legs are tall and thin and black,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Her eyes are very large and brown,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And as she walks along the paths,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Her frock moves slowly up and down.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">We all have sweethearts in our square,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And when the winter comes again,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">We shall go to the dancing-class<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And watch them walking through the rain.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_016_lg.jpg"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_016.jpg" width="541" height="550" alt="THE DANCING CLASS" title="THE DANCING CLASS" /></a> +</p> + +<p><a name="page_017" id="page_017"></a></p> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_017_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_017.png" width="450" height="335" alt="THE DANCING CLASS" title="THE DANCING CLASS" /></a> +<br /> +<span class="caption">THE DANCING CLASS</span> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">EACH week on Friday night at six<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Our dancing-class begins:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Two ladies dressed in white appear<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And play two violins.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">It's really meant for boys at school,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">But girls can also come,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And when you walk inside the room<br /></span> +<span class="i3">You hear a pleasant hum.<a name="page_018" id="page_018"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The older boys wear Eton suits,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The younger boys white tops;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">We stand together in a row<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And practise curious hops.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The dancing-master shows the step<br /></span> +<span class="i3">With many a puff and grunt;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He has a red silk handkerchief<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Stuck grandly in his front.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">He's awfully excitable,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">His wrists are very strong,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He drags you up and down the room<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Whenever you go wrong.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And when you're going very wrong,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The girls begin to laugh;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And when you're pushed back in your place,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The boys turn round and chaff.<a name="page_019" id="page_019"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">We've learnt the polka and the waltz,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">We've <i>got</i> the ladies' chain;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Although he says our final bows<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Give him enormous pain.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The floor is very slippery,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">It's difficult to walk<br /></span> +<span class="i0">From one end to the other end<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Unless you sort of stalk.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And when the steps have all been done,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">He takes you by the arm<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To choose a partner for the dance—<br /></span> +<span class="i3">It makes you get quite warm.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">You have to bow and look polite,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And ask with a grimace<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The pleasure of the next quadrille,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And slouch into your place.<a name="page_020" id="page_020"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">He always picks out girls you hate,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I really don't know why,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And when you look across the room<br /></span> +<span class="i3">It almost makes you cry<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">To see the girl you would have picked<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Dance with another boy<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Without a single smile for you,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Determined to annoy.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Your heart beats very loud and quick,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Your breath comes very fast,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">You pinch your partner in the chain—<br /></span> +<span class="i3">But dances end at last.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">You think you will not look at her,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">You look the other way;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Yet when she beckons with her fan,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">You instantly obey.<a name="page_021" id="page_021"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">How quick the evening gallops by<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And eight o'clock comes soon,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But not till you've arranged to meet<br /></span> +<span class="i3">To-morrow afternoon.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a name="page_022" id="page_022"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_022_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_022.png" width="450" height="330" alt="MY SISTER AT A PARTY" title="MY SISTER AT A PARTY" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I HEAR the piano, the party's begun;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Hurry up! hurry up! there is going to be fun.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Leave your wrap in the hall and tie up your shoes,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">There isn't a moment, a moment to lose.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Take a peep at the dining-room as you go by,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Lemonade, claret cup, orange wine you will spy:<a name="page_023" id="page_023"></a><br /></span> +<span class="i0">And they're going to have two sorts of ices this year,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Both strawberry-cream and vanilla, I hear.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Twelve dances are down on the programme, I see.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Oh, do up your gloves, she is waiting for me!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I hear the piano, the polka's begun!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Oh, why does your beastly old sash come undone!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That's right, are your ready? now don't you forget<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To say how d'ye do and express your regret<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That Miss Perkins<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a> is laid up in bed with a cold—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">It isn't my place—just you do as you're told.<a name="page_024" id="page_024"></a><br /></span> +<span class="i0">I say, look at Frank,<a name="FNanchor_C_3" id="FNanchor_C_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_C_3" class="fnanchor">[C]</a> he's behaving as though<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He was playing with cads in a field full of snow;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He's sliding about on the slippery floor<br /></span> +<span class="i0">All over the room with the kid from next door.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">It's a jolly good thing that Miss Perkins' in bed,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They'll probably send old Eliza<a name="FNanchor_D_4" id="FNanchor_D_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_D_4" class="fnanchor">[D]</a> instead.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When we hear that she's come, we'll just not attend,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Or tell her we never go home till the end.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They give all the maids when they come, orange wine—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I say, do you think I might ask her for nine.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">All right, only don't say I danced more than twice;<a name="page_025" id="page_025"></a><br /></span> +<span class="i0">If you do, I'll say you have had more than one ice.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Mother said that you could? She said one of each?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">You'd better look out or I'll jolly well peach.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">You don't care if I do? All right, just you wait!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">You'll tell Mrs. Jones we were not to be late?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I'm not pinching at all, you beastly young sneak!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">You <i>won't</i> follow me round when we play hide and seek!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">There's Dorothy!<a name="FNanchor_E_5" id="FNanchor_E_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_E_5" class="fnanchor">[E]</a> Pax! You can eat what you like,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And to-morrow I'll give you a ride on my bike.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="c"><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> Miss Perkins is our governess</p></div> <div class="footnote"><p class="c"><a name="Footnote_C_3" id="Footnote_C_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_C_3"><span class="label">[C]</span></a> He's my +brother</p></div> <div class="footnote"><p class="c"><a name="Footnote_D_4" id="Footnote_D_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_D_4"><span class="label">[D]</span></a> Eliza is our housemaid</p></div> <div class="footnote"><p class="c"><a name="Footnote_E_5" id="Footnote_E_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_E_5"><span class="label">[E]</span></a> She's an +awfully decent girl I know.<a name="page_026" id="page_026"></a></p></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_026_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_026.png" width="450" height="297" alt="KISSING GAMES" title="KISSING GAMES" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">POSTMAN'S Knock! Postman's Knock!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A letter for the girl next door,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And two pence, please, to pay.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Kiss in the Ring! Kiss in the Ring!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">She's fallen down upon the floor,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I don't know what to say.<a name="page_027" id="page_027"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Postman's Knock! Postman's Knock!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I wish that I had asked for more;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">At games you must obey.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Kiss in the Ring! Kiss in the Ring!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When running after her I tore<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Her frock the other day.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Postman's Knock! Postman's Knock!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A letter for the girl next door,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And a shilling she must pay.<a name="FNanchor_F_6" id="FNanchor_F_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_F_6" class="fnanchor">[F]</a><br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="c"><a name="Footnote_F_6" id="Footnote_F_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_F_6"><span class="label">[F]</span></a> But she didn't.<a name="page_028" id="page_028"></a></p></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_028_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_028.png" width="450" height="307" alt="BALLAD OF THE ROUND POND" title="BALLAD OF THE ROUND POND" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">THE Round Pond is a fine pond<br /></span> +<span class="i3">With fine ships sailing there,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Cutters, yachts and men-o'-war,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And sailor-boys everywhere.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Paper boats they hug the shore,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And row-boats move with string<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But cutters, yachts and larger ships<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Sail on like anything.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_029_lg.jpg"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_029.jpg" width="534" height="550" alt="THE ROUND POND" title="THE ROUND POND" /></a> +<br /> +<span class="caption">THE ROUND POND</span> +</p> + +<p><a name="page_029" id="page_029"></a></p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">It was the schooner <i>Kensington</i>,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Set out one Saturday:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The wind was blowing from the east,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The sky was cold and grey.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Her crew stood on the quarter-deck<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And stared across the sea,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With two brass cannon in the stern<br /></span> +<span class="i3">For the Royal Artillery.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The Royal Tin Artillery<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Had faced the sea before,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They had fallen in the bath one night<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And heard the waste-plug roar.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">They were rescued by the nursery maid<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And put on the ledge to dry;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And they looked more like the Volunteers<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Than the Royal Artillery.<a name="page_030" id="page_030"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">For the blue had all come off their clothes,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And they afterwards wore grey;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But they stood by the cannon like Marines<br /></span> +<span class="i3">That famous Saturday.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The crew of the schooner <i>Kensington</i><br /></span> +<span class="i3">Were Dutchmen to a man,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With wooden legs and painted eyes;<br /></span> +<span class="i3">But the Captain he was bran.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">His blood was of the brownest bran<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And his clothes were full of tucks;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But he fell in the sea half-way across,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And was eaten up by ducks.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">We launched the boat at half-past three,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And stood on the bank to watch,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And some friends of mine who were fishing there<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Had a wonderful minnow-catch.<a name="page_031" id="page_031"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Fifteen minnows were caught at once<br /></span> +<span class="i3">In an ancient ginger jar,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When a shout went up that the <i>Kensington</i><br /></span> +<span class="i3">Was heeling over too far.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Too far for a five-and-sixpenny ship<br /></span> +<span class="i3">That was warranted not to upset;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But she righted herself in half a tick<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Though the crew got very wet.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The crew got very wet indeed;<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The Artillery all fell down,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And lay on their backs for the rest of the voyage<br /></span> +<span class="i3">For fear they were going to drown.<a name="page_032" id="page_032"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The schooner <i>Kensington</i> sailed on<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Across the wild Round Pond,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And we ran along the gravel-bank<br /></span> +<span class="i3">With a hook stuck into a wand.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">A hook stuck into a wand to guide<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The schooner safe ashore<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To incandescent harbour lights<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And a dock on the school-room floor.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">But suddenly the wind dropped dead.<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And a calm came over the sea,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And a terrible rumour got abroad<br /></span> +<span class="i3">It was time to go home to tea.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">We whistled loud, we whistled long,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The whole of that afternoon;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But there wasn't wind enough to float<br /></span> +<span class="i3">A twopenny pink balloon.<a name="page_033" id="page_033"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And the other chaps upon the bank<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Looked anxiously out to sea;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For their sweethearts and sisters were going home,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And they feared for the cake at tea.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0"><span style="margin-left: 4em;"><b>. . . . . . .</b></span><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">It was the schooner <i>Kensington</i><br /></span> +<span class="i3">Came in at dead of night<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With many another gallant ship<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And one unlucky kite.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The keeper found them at break of day,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And locked them up quite dry<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In his little green hut, with a notice that<br /></span> +<span class="i3">On Monday we must apply.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">So on Sunday after church we went<br /></span> +<span class="i3">To stare at them through the door;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And we saw the schooner <i>Kensington</i><br /></span> +<span class="i3">Keel upwards on the floor.<a name="page_034" id="page_034"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">But though we stood on the tips of our toes,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And craned our necks to see,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">We could not spot the wooden-legged crew<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Or the Royal Artillery.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a name="page_035" id="page_035"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_035_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_035.png" width="450" height="320" alt="TOWN AND COUNTRY" title="TOWN AND COUNTRY" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">THEY say that country children have<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Most fierce adventures every night,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With owls and bats and giant moths<br /></span> +<span class="i3">That flutter to the candle-light.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">They say that country children search<br /></span> +<span class="i3">For earwigs underneath the sheets,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That creeping animals abound<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Upon the wooden window-seats.<a name="page_036" id="page_036"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">They say that country children wash<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Their hands in water full of things,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Tadpoles and newts and wriggling eels,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Until their hands are pink with stings.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">But this I know, that if they slept<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Far, far away from owls and bats,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Their hearts would thump tremendously<br /></span> +<span class="i3">To hear outside two fighting cats.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Two cats that surely must come through<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The inky window-pane and jump,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With gleaming eyes, upon my bed—<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Ah, then indeed their hearts would thump.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a name="page_037" id="page_037"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_037_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_037.png" width="450" height="322" alt="POOR LAVENDER GIRLS" title="POOR LAVENDER GIRLS" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">LAVENDER, lavender!<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Summer's in town!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Blue skies and marguerites,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Mother's new gown!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Lavender, lavender!<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Summer's in town!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Blue seas and yellow sands,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Children have flown.<a name="page_038" id="page_038"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Lavender, lavender!<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Bunchy and sweet!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">No one wants lavender<br /></span> +<span class="i3">All down our street.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Lavender girls in London never learn to play,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Give them a penny, a penny before you go away.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_038_lg.jpg"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_038.jpg" width="534" height="550" alt="GOOD-NIGHT" title="GOOD-NIGHT" /></a> +<br /> +<span class="caption">GOOD-NIGHT</span> +</p> + +<p><a name="page_039" id="page_039"></a></p> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_039_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_039.png" width="450" height="302" alt="SUMMER HOLIDAYS" title="SUMMER HOLIDAYS" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">WHEN I was small and went to bed<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Before the sun went down,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My cot was woven out of gold<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Like a princess's gown.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And in the garden every night,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I used to hear the birds,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And from the people on the lawn<br /></span> +<span class="i3">A pleasant sound of words.<a name="page_040" id="page_040"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The garden was quite full of pinks<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Whose smell came blowing in<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Through windows open very wide<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Where gnats would dance and spin.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And as I lay in my cool cot,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I'd think of daylight hours,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Poppies and ox-eyed daisies white,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And all the roadside flowers<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Now lifting up their drooping heads<br /></span> +<span class="i3">In the long-shadow time;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I'd listen for my mother's step<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The narrow stairs to climb.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And as she bent to say good-night<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And heard me say my prayer,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">She seemed a bit of mignonette,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">She was so sweet and fair.<a name="page_041" id="page_041"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And just as I was dozing off,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I'd hear some jolly talk<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of aunts and uncles setting out<br /></span> +<span class="i3">To take their supper-walk.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I'd hear their voices die away<br /></span> +<span class="i3">In the green curly lane;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But I was always fast asleep<br /></span> +<span class="i3">When they came back again.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a name="page_042" id="page_042"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_042_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_042.png" width="450" height="278" alt="THE UNPLEASANT MOON" title="THE UNPLEASANT MOON" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">THE moon is not much use to me,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">She rises far too late:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I'm fonder of the friendly fire<br /></span> +<span class="i3">That crackles in the grate.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">But when I wake up in the night<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And find the fire asleep,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">His ashes make a horrid noise<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And mice begin to creep.<a name="page_043" id="page_043"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And then the moon crawls in between<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The curtains and the floor,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And when I turn my face away,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">She's crawling round the door.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Oh, then I wish she was the fire,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I like his light the most;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He does not give the furniture<br /></span> +<span class="i3">A sort of shaking ghost.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I hide my head beneath the clothes<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And shut my eyes up tight,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And then I see queer dancing wheels<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And spots of coloured light.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">They do not comfort me at all,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">But pass the time away<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Until I hear the milkman's can<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And know that it is day.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a name="page_044" id="page_044"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_044_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_044.png" width="450" height="340" alt="SUGGESTIONS ABOUT SLEEP" title="SUGGESTIONS ABOUT SLEEP" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I'VE heard it said that the dustman<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Is responsible for our sleep,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That he puts a pinch of dust in our eyes<br /></span> +<span class="i3">When the stars begin to peep.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">If this is true it would quite explain<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The horrible dreams that come,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For the dustman looks a rough sort of chap,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And his cart smells awfully rum.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_045_lg.jpg"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_045.jpg" width="536" height="550" alt="THE DUSTMAN" title="THE DUSTMAN" /></a> +<br /> +<span class="caption">THE DUSTMAN</span> +</p> + +<p><a name="page_045" id="page_045"></a></p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I've tried to talk to the dustman,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">But his voice is fearfully hoarse;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And once I put a penny in the bin—<br /></span> +<span class="i3">It was taken out of course.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">But for all the good it did my dreams,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I need not have put it in;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Perhaps he thought that the penny had slipped<br /></span> +<span class="i3">By accident into the bin.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">It seems absurd in this civilised age<a name="FNanchor_G_7" id="FNanchor_G_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_G_7" class="fnanchor">[G]</a><br /></span> +<span class="i3">That our dreams should still be bad;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If the dustman <i>is</i> responsible<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I think he must be mad.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">It's horrid enough to lie awake,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And count the knobs on the bed;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But it's horrider far to go to sleep,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">In fact I'd sooner be dead.<a name="page_046" id="page_046"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I expect that then if one had bad dreams<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And woke up in a fright,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">There would be an angel somewhere about<br /></span> +<span class="i3">To strike a cheerful light.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And your governess is not always glad,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">If you wake her up to say<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That a witch has been chasing you down a street<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Where the people have gone away.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="c"><a name="Footnote_G_7" id="Footnote_G_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_G_7"><span class="label">[G]</span></a> Father said this about something.<a name="page_047" id="page_047"></a></p></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_047_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_047.png" width="450" height="324" alt="THE RARE BURGLAR" title="THE RARE BURGLAR" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">IT'S extremely unusual, my mother declares,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For a burglar to sleep at the top of the stairs:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The policemen, she says, are so terribly sure<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That daily the number of burglars gets fewer.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They are caught by the dozen as morning comes round<a name="page_048" id="page_048"></a><br /></span> +<span class="i0">And dragged off to cells very deep underground:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And there they repent of their wicked bad lives,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With occasional visits from children and wives.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">So every night when I lie in my bed,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I listen to hear the policeman's deep tread.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I've a whistle that hangs on a piece of white cord,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And it's much more consoling than any tin sword:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For I know, if I blow, the policeman will come<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And make the old burglar look awfully glum.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_048_lg.jpg"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_048.jpg" width="550" height="550" alt="THE GERMAN BAND" title="THE GERMAN BAND" /></a> +<br /> +<span class="caption">THE GERMAN BAND</span> +</p> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_049_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_049.png" width="450" height="271" alt="THE GERMAN BAND" title="THE GERMAN BAND" /></a> +</p> + +<p><a name="page_049" id="page_049"></a></p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I LOVE to lie in bed and hear<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The jolly German band.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Why people do not care for it<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I cannot understand.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">They do not mind the orchestra.<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And that makes far more noise;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They quite forget that music is<br /></span> +<span class="i3">A thing that one enjoys.<a name="page_050" id="page_050"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">When grown-up people come and call,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I have to play for them;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And once a deaf old lady said<br /></span> +<span class="i3">My playing was a gem.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">But it's not true for them to say<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The Carnival de Venise<a name="FNanchor_H_8" id="FNanchor_H_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_H_8" class="fnanchor">[H]</a><br /></span> +<span class="i0">With three wrong notes is better than<br /></span> +<span class="i3">A band that plays with ease.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">It comes each week at eight o'clock,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And when I hear it play,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I am a knight upon a horse<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And riding far away.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The lines upon the blanket are<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Six armies marching past,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Six armies marching on a plain,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Six armies marching fast.<a name="page_051" id="page_051"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Of course I am the general,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I'm riding at the head;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But suddenly the music stops<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And then I'm back in bed.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Each time it plays brings different thoughts,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Exciting, sad and good.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I'm sailing in a sailing ship,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I'm walking in a wood.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I'm going to the pantomime,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I'm at the hippodrome.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But when the music stops, why then<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I always am at home.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">In winter when it's dark at eight,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The jolly German band<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Drives all unpleasant thoughts away<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Just like a fairy-wand.<a name="page_052" id="page_052"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">In summer when it's light at eight,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The German band still plays;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">It makes me think of pleasant things<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And seaside holidays.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I've heard that it plays out of tune,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And upsets talking, and<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I've heard it called a nuisance, but<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I love the German band.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="c"><a name="Footnote_H_8" id="Footnote_H_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_H_8"><span class="label">[H]</span></a> This is beastly difficult, and almost so decent as <i>Rosalie +the Prairie Flower</i>.<a name="page_053" id="page_053"></a></p></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_053_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_053.png" width="450" height="325" alt="THE DECEITFUL RAT-TAT" title="THE DECEITFUL RAT-TAT" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">THE postman has given a loud rat-tat,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Perhaps it's a parcel for me:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Elizabeth does go slowly<br /></span> +<span class="i3">To open the door and see.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Oh dear, it's only a telegram,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">To wait on the stand in the hall<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Till Father comes home in the evening<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Or Mother comes back from a call.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a name="page_054" id="page_054"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_054_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_054.png" width="450" height="305" alt="THE CAGE IN THE PILLAR-BOX" title="THE CAGE IN THE PILLAR-BOX" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I WONDER if an animal<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Lives in the pillar-box,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For when the postman opens it<br /></span> +<span class="i3">You see a cage with locks.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And surely letters do not want<br /></span> +<span class="i3">A cage with bars and clamps;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They have no wings, they could not fly,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">They're held by sticky stamps.<a name="page_055" id="page_055"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Perhaps the postman keeps a pet,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">A savage beast of prey;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For lions, seals and diving-birds<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Are fed three times a day.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And all those figures on the plate<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Are meant perhaps for you<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To learn what time the beast is fed<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Like others at the Zoo.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And now I come to think of it,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The postman's coat and hat<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Is not unlike a keeper's who<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Feeds animals with fat.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Besides, he always shuts the door<br /></span> +<span class="i3">With a tremendous bang,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">As if he feared to see stick out<br /></span> +<span class="i3">An irritable fang.<a name="page_056" id="page_056"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">But then again I never heard<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The faintest roar or squeak,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I never saw a sniffing nose<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Or spied a hooky beak.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">So after all perhaps there's not<br /></span> +<span class="i3">A bird, a beast or snake.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And yet to-morrow I shall post<br /></span> +<span class="i3">A slice of cherry-cake.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a name="page_057" id="page_057"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_057_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_057.png" width="450" height="332" alt="THE FORTUNATE COALMEN" title="THE FORTUNATE COALMEN" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">IT is a pleasant thing to watch<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The coalmen at their work;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They do not seem to mind the dark<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Where many dangers lurk.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The braver of them goes below<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Into the cellar black,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And calls out in a cheerful voice<br /></span> +<span class="i3">To bring another sack.<a name="page_058" id="page_058"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The other grunts and groans a lot<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Beneath his load of coal,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And down the ladder goes with care<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Until he gains the hole.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">He turns his burden upside down,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The inside rattles out,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And a delicious smell of coal<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Gets everywhere about.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The braver one takes up his spade<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And shovels it away;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The other wipes his shiny face,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And asks the time of day.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">But it is very strange to me<br /></span> +<span class="i3">That neither seems to want<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To put the ladder down the hole<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And climb down where I can't.<a name="page_059" id="page_059"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">A man, they say, once broke his leg<br /></span> +<span class="i3">By falling down a grating,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And nearly died for want of food,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Because they kept him waiting<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">A week before they pulled him out<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And took him to his home,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">From which he never more went forth<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The London streets to roam.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">But coalmen do not run these risks,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">They have no nurse to frown,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">So they might spend the whole long day<br /></span> +<span class="i3">In climbing up and down.<a name="FNanchor_I_9" id="FNanchor_I_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_I_9" class="fnanchor">[I]</a><br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="c"><a name="Footnote_I_9" id="Footnote_I_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_I_9"><span class="label">[I]</span></a> They are silly not to.<a name="page_060" id="page_060"></a></p></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_060_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_060.png" width="450" height="284" alt="THE PAVEMENT ARTIST" title="THE PAVEMENT ARTIST" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I THINK that I should like to be<br /></span> +<span class="i3">A pavement artist best,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For he has every kind of chalk<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Spread in a cosy nest.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I have ten pieces in a box,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Black, yellow, white and blue,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Pink, red, brown, orange, grey and green,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But these are far too few.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_061_lg.jpg"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_061.jpg" width="541" height="550" alt="THE PAVEMENT ARTIST" title="THE PAVEMENT ARTIST" /></a> +<br /> +<span class="caption">THE PAVEMENT ARTIST</span> +</p> + +<p><a name="page_061" id="page_061"></a></p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">He has a hundred different shades,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And most uncommon sorts;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He can draw salmon, queens and chops,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Wrecks, mutinies and forts.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">His cannon have enormous puffs<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Of the most curly smoke,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Because he has so many 'greys,'<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Far more than other folk.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">His girls are a delicious pink,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And mine are rather pale;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But then I have to be more strict<br /></span> +<span class="i3">For fear my pink should fail.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">His fields have got a splendid green;<br /></span> +<span class="i3">They're full of flowers bright;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But mine are covered up with snow<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Because my paper's white.<a name="page_062" id="page_062"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And yet with all these jolly chalks,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The artist seems in pain;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Perhaps because his pictures get<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Rubbed out by showers of rain.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">But what I cannot understand<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Is why each paving-stone<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Has not a drawing on its face,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Why such a few are done.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Our walks would be much pleasanter,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">If all the dullest streets<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Were illustrated like a book<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And gay as flags or sweets.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Of course a lot would get all smudged<br /></span> +<span class="i3">By careless people's tracks,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But some would tread as I do now<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Only upon the cracks.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a name="page_063" id="page_063"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_063_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_063.png" width="450" height="313" alt="SWEEPS" title="SWEEPS" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">MY nurse declares that sweeps are kind,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Without the slightest inclination<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To steal away a well-dressed child<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Except by nurse's invitation.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Nurse says that children do not climb<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The tall black chimneys any more;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">She even says (this must be wrong)<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Sweeps enter by the area door.<a name="page_064" id="page_064"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">But I have seen a chimney-sweep<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Go whooping up and down our street;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And on his back he had a sack—<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I bet with something good to eat.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a name="page_065" id="page_065"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_065_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_065.png" width="450" height="334" alt="GREENGROCERS" title="GREENGROCERS" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">GREENGROCERS, greengrocers,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">In your green shops,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With cabbages and cauliflowers<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And tough turnip-tops.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Mother buys daffodils,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And apples for me:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But nurse she buys radishes<br /></span> +<span class="i3">To eat with her tea.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a name="page_066" id="page_066"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_066_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_066.png" width="450" height="301" alt="CHRISTMAS NOT FAR OFF" title="CHRISTMAS NOT FAR OFF" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">NOVEMBER fogs, November fogs,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">A month to Christmas day.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The world is cold and dirty,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">But the muffin man is gay.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">He rings his bell, he rings his bell<br /></span> +<span class="i3">All through the afternoon:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He rings his bell to let us know<br /></span> +<span class="i3">That Christmas will come soon.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a name="page_067" id="page_067"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_067_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_067.png" width="450" height="243" alt="THE DISAPPOINTMENT" title="THE DISAPPOINTMENT" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">THE Punch and Judy man's in sight,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">He's coming down our street,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He's stopping just before our house—<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Shut up! I bagged that seat.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I say, the Colonel opposite<a name="FNanchor_J_10" id="FNanchor_J_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_J_10" class="fnanchor">[J]</a><br /></span> +<span class="i3">Is sending him away,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Because he says his wife is ill<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And can't bear noise to-day.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="c"><a name="Footnote_J_10" id="Footnote_J_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_J_10"><span class="label">[J]</span></a> He bagged our ball the other day.<a name="page_068" id="page_068"></a></p></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_068_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_068.png" width="450" height="289" alt="TREASURE TROVE" title="TREASURE TROVE" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">AFTER a winter walk, it's nice<br /></span> +<span class="i3">To see the baked-potato man<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Poking his stove and picking out<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The best potatoes from his pan.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">A baked potato on a spike<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Is very like a pirate's head;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I always think of them again<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Long after when I've gone to bed.<a name="page_069" id="page_069"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I bought one coming home from school,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And as I turned into our street,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The lamp-posts in the yellow fog<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Sailed like a wicked pirate fleet.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And all the people in the fog<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Were sailor-men upon a quay;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The pavement smelt of tar and salt:<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I thought I heard quite close the sea.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I heard a whisper as I went,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">'The Jolly Roger's at the peak';<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A bullfinch in a lighted room<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Was a parrot in a far-off creek.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The parlour-maid at Twenty-two<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Was black-eyed Susan, and beyond,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The plane-tree was a cocoa-palm;<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The crossing-sweeper was marooned.<a name="page_070" id="page_070"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And as I got close to our house,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I was an English midshipman;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My satchel was an old sea-chest,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">My copy-book a treasure-plan.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And then a wondrous thing occurred,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The strangest thing I ever knew:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I found a shining sixpence, though<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I don't suppose you'll think it true.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I hardly dared to look at it,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Afraid that it would only prove<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A bit of tin, a Bovril coin,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And not a proper treasure-trove.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I told my brother and he thought<br /></span> +<span class="i3">We'd better hide it out of sight,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In case the pirates should attack<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Our bedroom on that foggy night.<a name="page_071" id="page_071"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The baked potato in my coat<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Was just exactly Captain Kidd;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">So both of us declared at once<br /></span> +<span class="i3">That there the sixpence must be hid.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">We took our sister's sailor-doll<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And put his clothes upon a stick,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And spent the evening doing this<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Instead of my arithmetic.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">We made a glorious cocked-hat<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Of paper-painted Prussian blue,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">We put the pirate on the stick,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And stuck the sixpence first with glue.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Deep in my mother's window-box<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Next day we buried Captain Kidd;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My sister never could find out<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Where all her sailor-clothes were hid.<a name="page_072" id="page_072"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">We made a map to show the place<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And wrote directions in red ink;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But when we dug the treasure up,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I dropped it down the kitchen sink.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a name="page_073" id="page_073"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_073_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_073.png" width="450" height="330" alt="A VISIT TO MY AUNT" title="A VISIT TO MY AUNT" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">AUNT JANE with whom I sometimes stay<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Has a very curious house,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">As quiet as Aunt Jane herself,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">As quiet as a mouse.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">It's always Autumn when I go<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And raining every day:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The garden's full of shrubs and paths<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I'm sent out there to play.<a name="page_074" id="page_074"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The paths are green and full of moss,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The shrubs are wet and dark:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">It's like a secret corner in<br /></span> +<span class="i3">A sort of nightmare park.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I walk about the paths alone<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And look at roots and leaves,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And once behind a laurel bush<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I saw a Pierrot's<a name="FNanchor_K_11" id="FNanchor_K_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_K_11" class="fnanchor">[K]</a> sleeves.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I thought of him that night in bed,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I was afraid he'd climb<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And peep against the window-pane<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And say a horrid rhyme.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And when I heard the rain outside<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Dripping upon the sill,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I thought I heard his footsteps too,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And oh, I did lie still.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="c"><a name="Footnote_K_11" id="Footnote_K_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_K_11"><span class="label">[K]</span></a> Like one in my Aunt's French picture-book<a name="page_075" id="page_075"></a></p></div> + + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I saw his shadow dance about<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Like a shadow on a sheet;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I saw his eyes, like currants black,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And his white velvet feet.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">My aunt's house is a quiet house,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The servants never speak:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">She goes to sleep each afternoon:<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I stay there for a week.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The rooms have got a woolly smell,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">They're full of little things—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Tall clocks and fat blue china bowls<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And birds with coloured wings.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I tinkle all the candlesticks<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Upon the mantelpiece:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They wave long after I have gone,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And never seem to cease.<a name="page_076" id="page_076"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The drawing-room is full of shawls,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">With footstools everywhere,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And prickly cushions stuck upright<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Upon each bristly chair.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I'm glad when I go home again<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Into the shining lamps<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And comfortable sound of streets,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And see my book of stamps.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_076_lg.jpg"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_076.jpg" width="546" height="550" alt="DON QUIXOTE" title="DON QUIXOTE" /></a> +<br /> +<span class="caption">DON QUIXOTE</span> +</p> + +<p><a name="page_077" id="page_077"></a></p> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_077_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_077.png" width="450" height="325" alt="DON QUIXOTE" title="DON QUIXOTE" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">THE clock is striking four o'clock,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">It is not time for tea.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Although the night is marching up<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And I can hardly see.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I'm reading in the library<br /></span> +<span class="i3">In a most enormous chair;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The fire is just the very kind<br /></span> +<span class="i3">That makes you want to stare.<a name="page_078" id="page_078"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">I'm looking at the largest book<br /></span> +<span class="i3">That ever yet was seen;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They say I shall not understand<br /></span> +<span class="i3">This tale till I'm fourteen.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Don Quixote is the name of it<br /></span> +<span class="i3">With pictures on each page;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The way that he was treated puts<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Me in a fearful rage.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Don Quixote was a tall thin man<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Whose thoughts were just like mine,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He saw queer things, he heard queer sounds<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Though he was more than nine.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">He used to lie in bed and watch<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The hilly counterpane.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And see strange little knights-at-arms<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Go riding down a plain.<a name="page_079" id="page_079"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">His room was simply crowded with<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Enchanters, dwarfs and elves,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And dragons used to go to sleep<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Upon the darkest shelves.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">He used to think that common things<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Were really very strange,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Like me who saw a goblin once<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Upon our kitchen-range.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">He saw big giants in the clouds<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Marching and fighting there:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He used to listen to the leaves<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And think it was a bear.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">He found some armour that belonged<br /></span> +<span class="i3">To people long ago,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And rode away to fight and save<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Princesses from the foe.<a name="page_080" id="page_080"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">But every one behaved to him<br /></span> +<span class="i3">As if they were his nurse:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They said he was old-fashioned and<br /></span> +<span class="i3">They said he was a curse.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">He used to play at 'let's pretend'<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And charge a flock of sheep;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He used to read in bed at night<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Instead of going to sleep.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">There was not anything of which<br /></span> +<span class="i3">He could not make a game;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He must have been a jolly chap—<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Don Quixote was his name.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">He had adventures every day,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">He simply made them come;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But all his family shook their heads<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And said that he was rum.<a name="page_081" id="page_081"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">They burnt his books, they shut him up,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">They threw enormous stones.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Some beastly fellows beat him too<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And almost broke his bones.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">It makes me simply furious,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">It <i>nearly</i> makes me cry<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To see him lying in the road—<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I hope he will not die.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">He did not mean to misbehave,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">He wanted just to play;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Some people think my games are bad—<br /></span> +<span class="i3">They did the other day.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">A cousin came to stay with us<br /></span> +<span class="i3">To see the Lord Mayor's Show,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And we were playing 'Ancient Greeks,'<br /></span> +<span class="i3">A game you all must know.<a name="page_082" id="page_082"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Andromeda we gave to her,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Perseus was given to me;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My kiddy brother was the beast,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The nursery floor the sea.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">We tied her to the rock with string,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The rock was Nurse's bed,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Medusa's head was Nurse's hat—<br /></span> +<span class="i3">We ruined it, she said.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And as the floor was rather dry,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">We got the water-jug,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And slooshed it all about the room<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And simply sopped the rug.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">My kiddy brother was the beast,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">I killed him with the poker;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My kiddy cousin screamed and yelled<br /></span> +<span class="i3">As if we <i>meant</i> to soak her.<a name="page_083" id="page_083"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">So we were punished just because<br /></span> +<span class="i3">We played at 'let's pretend.'<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Don Quixote would have understood,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">He would have been our friend.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Hullo! there goes the bell for tea;<br /></span> +<span class="i3">They've lighted up the hall,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And I must go and wash my hands<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And fetch Miss Perkins' shawl.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a name="page_084" id="page_084"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_084_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_084.png" width="450" height="329" alt="THE WET DAY" title="THE WET DAY" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">THE wettest days in London<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Are quite a jolly spree:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Our house is like an island,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The wet street like a sea.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The rain beats on our windows<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And splashes on the sill;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But the dining-room's a jungle,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The staircase is a hill.<a name="page_085" id="page_085"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Our camping-ground's the nursery,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The hall's a coral-reef;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My sister's cot's a schooner,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And Nurse an Indian chief.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Miss Perkins is a pirate,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">The maids are cannibals;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They have orgies in the pantry<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Unless a person calls.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">We've guns and swords and pistols,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">We've several sorts of flags;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">By shooting on the hillside<br /></span> +<span class="i3">We've got some splendid bags.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">We found a grand volcano<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Close to the servants' room,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">It really was the cistern,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">But it made a fearful boom.<a name="page_086" id="page_086"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">In all our expeditions<br /></span> +<span class="i3">My brother is the crew,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I'm midshipman and captain—<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Of course it's rather few,<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">But then my kiddie sister<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Has <i>got</i> to be the beasts<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Which we go out a-hunting<br /></span> +<span class="i3">In order to have feasts.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Our feasts are bread and butter,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And sometimes bread and jam—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That is, if when we're shooting<br /></span> +<span class="i3">No doors are made to slam.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The wettest days in London<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Are quite a jolly spree;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And sometimes, though not often,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Our friends come in to tea.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><a name="page_087" id="page_087"></a></p> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/ill_pg_087_lg.png"> +<img src="images/ill_pg_087.png" width="450" height="345" alt="LAST WORDS" title="LAST WORDS" /></a> +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">IF, Percy, you have money in your pocket,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">For Algernon I hope you'll buy this book,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But when you've bought it, do let Algy read it,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And let your kiddy sister have a look.<a name="page_088" id="page_088"></a><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">This good advice applies to you, young Godfrey,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">To Wilfred and to Michael and to Claude,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To James, Guy, Basil, Archibald and Eustace,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And also to Diana, Joan and Maud.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Philip, to you the last must be spoken;<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Tell people of this book round Kensington;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Mention with kind encouragement the Author,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">And get the money from your Uncle John.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + +<p class="cb">THE END</p> + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/back_lg.jpg"> +<img src="images/back.jpg" width="400" height="550" alt="image of the book's back cover" title="image of the book's back 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