. St. Nicholas [serial] . nday frocks; For ballast thirty granite rocks, Besides a dozen ticking clocks To tell the time it took, ha ! ha! To run from Dan to Beersheba. The neighbors said: The boy is daft!But Master Moono only laughed,And packed with food his funny craft;Provisions took, ho ! ho ! ha ! ha !To last from Dan to Beersheba. His mother wept and turned pale; His sister said, The thing will fail. But all their tears did not avail; He jumped in and hoisted sail, Up sprang a sprightly southern gale; He cried: Good-bye, my Pa and Ma, I m off from Dan to Beersheba! He traveled near, he t
. St. Nicholas [serial] . nday frocks; For ballast thirty granite rocks, Besides a dozen ticking clocks To tell the time it took, ha ! ha! To run from Dan to Beersheba. The neighbors said: The boy is daft!But Master Moono only laughed,And packed with food his funny craft;Provisions took, ho ! ho ! ha ! ha !To last from Dan to Beersheba. His mother wept and turned pale; His sister said, The thing will fail. But all their tears did not avail; He jumped in and hoisted sail, Up sprang a sprightly southern gale; He cried: Good-bye, my Pa and Ma, I m off from Dan to Beersheba! He traveled near, he traveled far;In Tyrol he did tra-la-la,He heard a German saying yah,He twanged a Spanish maids guitar,And bowed before the Russian , then, he cried, To see a star,And then, through Borrioboolaga,I 11 hie me on to Beersheba. The rocks of granite out he threw, And up aloft he quickly flew; Then, fast receding from his view, The houses small and smaller grew. He shivered, coughed, and sneezed A-chew! MASTER MOONO. 425. His ears were red, his nose was , dear! he cried, What shall 1 do?For he was frightened through and through,And never thought to laugh Ha! ha!But wished himself in Beersheba. Because of clouds of rain and snowHe could not see the way to go;He struck a star a sudden blow,And, in a thousand bits or so, The car went tumbling down below. Some pieces fell in Africa, And some in Dan and Beersheba. But Master Moono in the skyWas doomed for aye to live and die;Sometimes he hides his face to cry,Sometimes he only shows an eye,Sometimes, with many a star, ha! ha!He shines on Dan and Beersheba.
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