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Wed, 22 Sep 2010
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 HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE and all that time, I forgot the end of this Froggies Rhyme
SELIGOR'S
CASTLE
Hey Diddle, Diddle, the Cat and
the Fiddle
The Frog jumped over the
Tortoise
This was fun at the time, but I really
can't rhyme
Many words rhyming 'sept
Porpoise.
Don't go
away though, I've been searching for some really
nice stories or rhymes for us..... and I have found
a few in
a 107 year old book. so they should be brand
new for most of you.
Now the first
poem is called "The Foolish Frog " and was written
by a gentleman called Stephen Southwold,
but he changed his name quite a lot when he became
famous, though he
wrote this as Stephen Southwold when he was in his
twenties.
THE FOOLISH FROG.
A nimble, lithe and spruce
young frog,
Who gambolled by the
riverside
With many an eager hop and
jump,
A slow old tortoise there
espied.
Puffed out with pride, the
vain young frog
Sneered at the slow one's
crawling gait;
"It must be hard," he
jeered,
"To be condemned to such a
fate."
I don't suppose," he then
went on,
"You know how fine it is to
leap,
In fact," he mocked, "I
half believe
You merely crawl along
asleep.
"Yet, if you'd only try to
learn,
It's simpler far than A B
C.
Why, mother said she did
not spend
A single moment teaching
me."
"Now watch me!" said the
foolish frog,
The tortoise
tried to hide a smile.
The young frog leapt
. . . . too late he
saw
The slyly waiting crocodile
!...
 Posted 19:16
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