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LEAR'S NONSENSE DROLLERIESThe Owl & The Pussy Cat and The Duck & the Kangaroo
WITH Original Illustrations BY William Foster
LONDON & NEW YORK FREDERICK WARNE AND CO. 1889 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
and
The Pussy-Cat.
and
The Kangaroo. Nonsense Drolleries The Owl & The Pussy-Cat—The Duck & The Kangaroo. BY EDWARD LEAR, AUTHOR OF "THE BOOK OF NONSENSE," ETC. WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILLIAM FOSTER
LONDON & NEW YORK
FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.
1889
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.The almost general desire to have The Owl and The Pussy-cat, The Duck and The Kangaroo, in a distinct form from Mr. Lear's other Nonsense Drolleries, has induced us to issue them separately with Original Illustrations.
Fredk. Warne & Co.
London
Engraved & Printed
at
Racquet Court,
by
Edmund Evans.
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
And sang to a small guitar,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!"
How charmingly sweet you sing!
But what shall we do for a ring?"
To the land where the Bong-tree grows,
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.
Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
The Duck
and
The Kangaroo.
"Good gracious! how you hop
Over the fields and the water too,
As if you never would stop!
And I long to go out in the world beyond!
Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
The whole of the long day through!
Over the land, and over the sea;—
Please take me a ride! O do!"
Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
"This requires some little reflection;
Perhaps on the whole it might bring me luck,
And there seems but one objection,
Your feet are unpleasantly wet and cold,
And would probably give me the roo-
Matiz." said the Kangaroo.
I have thought over that completely,
And I bought four pairs of worsted socks
Which fit my web-feet neatly
And every day a cigar I'll smoke,
All to follow my own dear true
Love of a Kangaroo!"
All in the moonlight pale;
But to balance me well, dear Duck, sit steady!
And quite at the end of my tail!"
And they hopped the whole world three times round;
And who so happy,—O who,
As the Duck and the Kangaroo?
A LIST OF WORKS
BY
THE LATE EDWARD LEAR.
In oblong 4to, cloth gilt,
The Book of Nonsense. 27th Edition, 110 Illustrations printed in outline as originally published.
More Nonsense. Third Edition. 104 Illustrations.
In small 4to, cloth gilt,
Nonsense Songs and Stories. 7th Edition.
Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets. 162 Illustrations. Fifth Edition.
MR. RUSKIN
says, in his List of the Best Hundred Authors—"Surely the most beneficent and innocent of all looks yet produced is 'The Book of Nonsense,' with its corollary carols, inimitable and refreshing, and perfect in rhythm. I really don't know any author to whom I am half so grateful for my idle self as Edward Lear. I shall put him first of my hundred authors."
LONDON AND NEW YORK:
FREDERICK WARNE & CO.
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