The bashful earthquake & other fables and verses . Once on a time a young Giraffe (Who when at school devoured the chaff, And trampled underneath his feet The golden grains of Learnings wheat) Upon his travels chanced to see A Python hanging from a tree, A thing he d never met before. All neck it seemed and nothing more ; And, stranger still, it was hestrown With pretty spots much like his own. W^ell, well ! I ve often heard, he said, Of foolish folk who lose their head; But really its a funnier joke To meet a head thats lost its folk. Dear me! Ha ! ha ! It makes me has he left his
The bashful earthquake & other fables and verses . Once on a time a young Giraffe (Who when at school devoured the chaff, And trampled underneath his feet The golden grains of Learnings wheat) Upon his travels chanced to see A Python hanging from a tree, A thing he d never met before. All neck it seemed and nothing more ; And, stranger still, it was hestrown With pretty spots much like his own. W^ell, well ! I ve often heard, he said, Of foolish folk who lose their head; But really its a funnier joke To meet a head thats lost its folk. Dear me! Ha ! ha ! It makes me has he left his other half ?If he could find it he would beA really fine Giraffe, like me. 61. The Pythoiij waking witli a hiss,Exclaimed, What kind of snake is this ?^^^ Your spots are really very fine,Almost as good in fact as with those legs I fail to seeHow 3^ou can coil about a away half, and you would makeA very decent sort of snake —Almost as fine a snake as I;Indeed, its not too late totry. A something in the P3thons eyeTold the Giraffe t was best to fly,Omitting all afterward, when safe at home,He wrote a very learned , What I Saw beyond the he, The strangest thing one seesIs a Giraffe who hangs from trees,62 And has — (right here the author begsTo state 2, fact) and has no legs!^^ The book made a tremendous public all devoured it,Save one, who, minding how he missedDevouring the author — hissed. 63
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