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Boy do I love books
And I have many! I was home a few weeks ago and my mother asked
me to rummage through my stuff, so heck why not, might find a
treasure to two... or a shit load of stuff that I'll end up
taking back with me to my newly purchased home. I ended up taking
the whole cupboard set... what can I say, I love my old junk, so
many memories.
I was looking through my old books I had as a kid, and one book stuck out. I knew that it was a keeper!
It's Edward Lear's classic! The Owl and the Pussycat. I was
always fond of this book... not sure why, maybe it was Ruth
Sanderson's artwork that attracted me to it, after all, there is
nothing hotter then a cat getting hitched with a midget owl that
dresses like a garden gnome. But hey! I was 5 when I had this
book, I was easy to amuse.
The poem is as follows:
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!'
Pussy said to the Owl, 'You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?'
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.
'Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?' Said the Piggy, 'I will.'
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
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