LEAR'S NONSENSE

DROLLERIES

WITH

Original Illustrations
BY

WILLIAM FOSTER

LONDON

A-

FRKDKRICK \VARNK
1889

NEW YORK AND!

CO.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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The Owl
and

The Pussy -Cat.

The Duck
and

The Kangaroo.

Nonsense Drolleries
The Owl

&

The

Pussy-Cat

The Duck

&

The Kangaroo.

EDWARD

LEAR,
ETC.

AUTHOR OF "THE BOOK OF NONSENSE,"

WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILLIAM FOSTER

LONDON & NEW YORK

FREDERICK WARNE AND

1889
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

CO.

PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.
THE
and
almost general
desire
to

have

THE OWL

THE PUSSY-CAT, THE DUCK and THE

in

KANGAROO,
other
issue

distinct

form from Mr. LEAR'S

has

Nonsense

Drolleries,

induced us to
Illustrations.

them separately with Original

FREDK.

WARNE &

Co.

HP HE

Owl and

the Pussy-Cat went to sea

In a beautiful pea-green boat,

(

They took some

honey, and plenty of

in

money

Wrapped up

a five-pound note.

The Owl

looked up to the stars above,

And

sang to a small
(

guitar,

"

lovely Pussy

Pussy,

my

love,

What

a beautiful Pussy you are,

You You

are,

are

What

a beautiful Pussy you are!"

10

Pussy said to the Owl,

"You

elegant fowl!
!

How

charmingly sweet you sing

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,

(

13

And

there in a

wood a Piggy-wig
His nose, His nose,

stood,

With a

ring at the end of his nose,

With a

of his nose. ring at the end

" Dear Pig, are you willing to

sell

for

one

shilling

Your ring?"

Said the Piggy, "I

will."

So they took

it

next day away, and were married

lives

By

the

Turkey who

on the

hill.

They dined on mince, and Which they ate with

slices

of quince
;

a runcible spoon

And hand

in

hand, on the edge of the sand,

of the moon,

They danced by the light The moon,

The moon,
They danced by the
light of the

moon.

The Duck
and

The Kangaroo.

OAID
"

the

Duck

to the
!

Kangaroo,

Good

gracious

how you hop

Over

the fields and the water too,

As

if

you never would stop

My
And

life
I

is

a bore

in

this nasty

pond,
!

long to go out in the world beyond

wish

could hop like you

"
!

Said the

Duck
I

to the

Kangaroo.

22

Please give me a ride on your back Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
(

"
!

23

would

sit

quite

still,

and say nothing but

!

'

Quack,

The whole

of the long day through

fr

And
Over

we'd go to the Dee, and the Jelly

the land, and over the sea
;

Bo

Lee,

Please take

me

a ride

do

'

Said the

Duck

to the Kangaroo.
25
)

Said the Kangaroo to the Duck,

"

This requires some

it

little

reflection

Perhaps on the whole

might bring

me

luck,

And

there seems but one objection,

Which
Your

is,

if

you'll let

me

speak so bold,

feet are unpleasantly wet

and

cold,

And would
Matiz
:

probably give

me

the roo-

said the Kangaroo.

Said the Duck,

I

"As

sate

on the rocks,

have thought over that completely,

And

bought four pairs of worsted socks

fit

Which

my

web-feet neatly

And

to

keep out the cold

I'll

I've

bought a cloak

And

every day a cigar

All to follow

smoke,
true

my own dear
"
!

Love of a Kangaroo

Said the Kangaroo, 'I'm ready

All in the moonlight pale
;

But

to balance

me

well, dear Duck,

sit

steady!
"

And

quite at the

end of

my

tail

And

So away they went with a hop and a bound, they hopped the whole world three times round

And who
As
the

so happy,

who,
?

Duck and

the

Kangaroo

A LIST OF WORKS
I:Y

THE LATE EDWARD LEAR.

In oblong
4/0, cloih gilt,

The Book

of Nonsense,

ayih Edition,

no

Illustra

tions printed in outline as originally published.

More Nonsense.

Third Edition.

104 Illustrations.

In small 4/0, doth

gilt,

Nonsense Songs and Stories, yth Edition. Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets.
Illustrations.

162

Fifth Edition.

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says, in his List

hundred

authors."'

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