WHAT THE WEASEL PAINTED

There were snails

on rails

and mice

on ice.

Dogs, hogs

and frogs

in clogs –

floundering in bogs.

Gnus

in pointed shoes

(their tootsies will bruise).

Llamas

in striped pyjamas.

Asses

with glasses.

Chimps

with limps –

such imps!

Cats, rats

and bats

in spats.

Yaks

in plastic macs –

(soaked to the bone,

all all alone,

they groan,

all trying to use the phone:

Hallo? Hallo? Ochone!)

Two fighting cocks

a stray fox

something rather like an ox.

A papoose

riding a moose

and a goose

with a screw loose.

And there with his easel

Wilfred the Weasel

painting a sun as small as a measle!