A bear, however hard he tries,
Grows tubby without exercise.
Our Teddy Bear is short and fat,
Which is not to be wondered at;
He gets what exercise he can

Tattoo was the mother of Pinkle P
A little black nothing of feet and
And by-and-by, when his eyes came
He saw his mother, the big Tattoo
And all that he learned he learned

In a corner of the bedroom is a gr
Someone lives behind it, but I do
I think it is a Brownie, but I’m
(Nanny isn’t certain, too.)
I looked behind the curtain, but h

I met a Man as I went walking:
We got talking,
Man and I.
‘Where are you going to, Man?’ I
(I said to the Man as he went by)

She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight

I went down to the shouting sea,
Taking Christopher down with me,
For Nurse had given us sixpence e
And down we went to the beach.
We had sand in the eyes and the ea

Same old trenches, same old view,
Same old rats as blooming tame,
Same old dug-outs, nothing new,
Same old smell, the very same,
Same old bodies out in front,

There are lions and roaring tigers
and enormous camels and things,
There are biffalo-buffalo-bisons,
and a great big bear with wings.
There’s a sort of a tiny potamus,

Jonathan Jo
Has a mouth like an 'O’
And a wheelbarrow full of surprise
If you ask for a bat,
Or for something like that,

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A fly can’t bird, but a bird can f
Ask me a riddle and I reply
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