Читать книгу Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. IX.—February, 1851.—Vol. II. - Various - Страница 2
AN INVITATION TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS
Оглавление(BY A GENTLEMAN WITH A SLIGHT IMPEDIMENT IN HIS SPEECH.)
I have found out a gig-gig-gift for my fuf-fuf – fair,
I have found where the rattle-snakes bub-bub – breed.
Won't you c-c-c-come, and I'll show you the bub-bub – bear,
And the lions and tit-tit – tigers at fuf-fuf-fuf – feed.
I know where c-c-c-co – cockatoo's song
Makes mum-mum-mum – melody through the sweet vale;
Where the m – monkeys gig-gig – grin all the day long,
Or gracefully swing by the tit-tit-tit-tit – tail.
You shall pip-pip – play, dear, some did-did – delicate joke,
With the bub-bub – bear on the tit-tit – top of his pip-pip-pip – pole;
But observe, 'tis for-for-for – bidden to pip-pip – poke
At the bub-bub – bear with your pip-pip – pink pip-pip-pip-pip – parasol.
You shall see the huge elephant pip-pip-pip – play;
You shall gig-gig-gaze on the stit-tit – ately racoon,
And then, did-did – dear, together we'll stray,
To the cage of the bub-bub – blue fuf-fuf-fac'd bab-bab-bab – boon.
You wish'd (I r-r-r – remember it well,
And I l-l-l-lov'd you the m-m-more for the wish)
To witness the bub-bub-bub – beautiful pip-pip – pel-
ican swallow the l-l-live l-l-l-little fuf-fuf – fish.
Then c-c-ome, did-did-dearest, n-n-n-never say "nun-nun-nun-nun – nay;"
I'll tit-tit-treat you, my love, to a "bub-bub-bub – buss,"
'Tis but thrup-pip-pip-pip – pence a pip-pip – piece all the way,
To see the hip-pip-pip – (I beg your pardon) —
To see the hip-pip-pip-pip – (ahem!)
The hip-pip-pip-pip – pop-pop-pop-pop – (I mean)
The hip-po-po-po – (dear me, love, you know)
The hippo-pot-pot-pot – ('pon my word I'm quite ashamed of myself).
The hip-pip-pop – the hip-po-pot.
To see the Hippop – potamus.