St Nicholas [serial] . 68o AROUND THE WORLD ON A TELEGRAPH-WIRE. [August; AROUND THE A TELEGRAPH-. WORLD ONWIRE. By E. L. Bynner. IMMY and Johnny and Susy Highflier, As fine a young trio as heart could desire,They flew round the world on a telegraph-wire:O Billibald—bunkum—bamboo !For they went out to playOn a sunshiny day,When jumpty-jump Jimmy, what does he doBut skip up a pole like a young kangaroo. Up a pole, a tall pole, clambered Jimmy Highflier,Till he got to the top and could clamber no higher,And found running through it a long slender wire:Cliticlack—clutterbuck—cray ! Then he cried
St Nicholas [serial] . 68o AROUND THE WORLD ON A TELEGRAPH-WIRE. [August; AROUND THE A TELEGRAPH-. WORLD ONWIRE. By E. L. Bynner. IMMY and Johnny and Susy Highflier, As fine a young trio as heart could desire,They flew round the world on a telegraph-wire:O Billibald—bunkum—bamboo !For they went out to playOn a sunshiny day,When jumpty-jump Jimmy, what does he doBut skip up a pole like a young kangaroo. Up a pole, a tall pole, clambered Jimmy Highflier,Till he got to the top and could clamber no higher,And found running through it a long slender wire:Cliticlack—clutterbuck—cray ! Then he cried out, How queer! Oh, just look a-here ! When, tugging and kicking and scrambling away,Up went Johnny and Susy to see whats to pay. Whereupon—guddy zooks !—lo ! each infant HighflierWas seized and possessed with the reckless desireTo leave the stout pole and get out on the wire :Daffy—down—dilly—heigh—oh ! And at once, when they did it,Without quip or quiddit,Whizz ! br-r-r ! like an arrow shot off from a bow,Away like a flash these three infants did go.
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