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Alice’s Adventures Under Ground

The British Library Virtual Book | audio

January 14, 2011 at 2:20 pm Leave a comment

Brother And Sister

by Lewis Carroll

“SISTER, sister, go to bed!
Go and rest your weary head.”
Thus the prudent brother said.

“Do you want a battered hide,
Or scratches to your face applied?”
Thus his sister calm replied.

“Sister, do not raise my wrath.
I’d make you into mutton broth
As easily as kill a moth”

The sister raised her beaming eye
And looked on him indignantly
And sternly answered, “Only try!”

Off to the cook he quickly ran.
“Dear Cook, please lend a frying-pan
To me as quickly as you can.”

And wherefore should I lend it you?”
“The reason, Cook, is plain to view.
I wish to make an Irish stew.”

“What meat is in that stew to go?”
“My sister’ll be the contents!”
“Oh”
“You’ll lend the pan to me, Cook?”
“No!”

Moral: Never stew your sister.

December 2, 2010 at 6:04 pm Leave a comment

THE OWL AND THE PANTHER

THE ROLE OF CATS IN NURSERY RHYMES
by Sarah Hartwell

I passed by his garden, and marked with one eye,
How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie:
The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat,
While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat.
When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon,
Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon:
While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl
And concluded the banquet by [eating the owl]

A nonsense verse (again cats and cutlery!) by Lewis Carroll. Carroll omits the bracketed words – they are left for the reader (or child) to gleefully fill in.

May 26, 2008 at 12:33 am Leave a comment


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