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CHAPTER I	A
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Mistress O'Hara lives down by the sea	B
A skittish and beautiful widow is she	B
She has black shiny tresses and curly buff toes	C
And a heavenly tilt to the tip of her nose	C
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She has three little children the eldest is four	D
Nurse says he is naughty enough to be more	D
The Twins are dear dumplings and they and their brother	E
Are always in scrapes	F
Of one kind or another	E
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This morning poor Mistress O'Hara looks blue	G
As indeed she has every reason to do	G
For the third time this week Nurse has come in to say	H
If you please 'm the children have all run away	H
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Oh bother those children well first let us look	I
In the larder to see what provisions they took	I
If the pumpkin pie's gone they are off for the day	H
If they only took raisins they're not far away	H
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They look in the larder and what do you think	J
Find nothing whatever to eat or to drink	J
Alack says the Cook it is just as I feared	K
The whole of my dinner has clean disappeared	K
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This is really too bad says Mama in a rage	L
As she slips on her pattens and turns down the page	L
Of the book she is reading and starts out to find	M
The darlings to give them a piece of her mind	M
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She takes a big stick and makes tracks for the sea	B
Where she's pretty well sure all the truants will be	B
Yama Guchi she knows leads the Twins by the nose	C
And they patiently follow wherever he goes	C
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Sure enough the first things that she sees on the shore	D
Are footprints and further on several more	D
And still further on there are two little rows	C
Of shoes and some other superfluous clo'es	C
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But where are the children The children are gone	N
Oh doesn't poor Mistress O'Hara take on	O
She weeps and she wails and she tears out her hair	P
And rolls on the sands in the depths of despair	P
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The sand it is gritty the sand it is dry	A
It scratches her nose and gets into her eye	A
Her throat feels as if she had swallowed a peck	Q
And the rolling soon gives her a crick in her neck	Q
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So she picks up her pattens her stick and her fan	R
And bundles her hair up as well as she can	R
Next minute it all stands on end with surprise	C
She stares and she stares disbelieving her eyes	C
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For there as if just newly dropped from the skies	C
Are the children all looking as chirpy as flies	C
But what flabbergasts the poor lady the most	S
Is the sight of a MER BABY dumped on a post	S
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Such a queer little object she never has seen	T
It has eyes big as saucers all glazy and green	T
A mere speck of a nose scarcely raised from its face	C
And a mouth that meanders all over the place	C
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Yama Guchi is dancing and shouting with glee	B
Did you come from the earth or the sky or the sea	B
While the Twins with amazement struck utterly dumb	U
Stand solemnly gazing each sucking a thumb	U
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They implore it to speak but they are not prepared	V
For the size of its mouth and are horribly scared	V
Making sure it is going to swallow them all	W
Yet its voice when it speaks is quite squeaky and small	W
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My name's Fishy Winkle I live in the sea	B
To day I played truant from school for a spree	B
But oh how I wish that I never had come	U
For the tide has gone out and I cannot get home	X
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Cheer up Fishy Winkle and don't make a fuss	C
Get into the go cart and run off with us	C
We've rations for dinner and also for tea	B
You will find it much nicer than under the sea	B
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They bring up the go cart and Fishy jumps down	Y
The more haste the less speed for he falls on his crown	Y
No matter he's in now they're off and Houp La	Z
They are soon out of reach of their furious Ma	Z
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CHAPTER II	A
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See Fishy Winkle drive in state	A2
Across the shining sand	B2
With Yama Guchi yoked in front	C2
A Twin on either hand	B2
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But soon each weary back is humped	D2
And bowed each jetty pate	A2
For Fishy though he looks so small	W
Is not a feather weight	A2
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At last they reach a cavern cool	E2
And sit down in a bunch	F2
Declaring they won't budge an inch	G2
Till they have had some lunch	F2
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The food stuffs are a trifle mixed	H2
From joggling in the cart	I2
There's jam spread on the slim sardine	T
Salt on the pumpkin tart	I2
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Right in the middle there appears	C
An unexpected guest	J2
Who kindly makes himself at home	X
And feeds upon the best	J2
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The children look at him with awe	Z
And whisper Who is that	K2
Why don't you know says Fishy Wink	J
That is the HADDOCK CAT	K2
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The Haddock Cat is very kind	M
And when the meal is done	L2
Cries Get upon my back you four	D
I'll take you for a run	L2
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He crouches down upon the sand	B2
And up the children jump	M2
Then he gets up contrairy wise	C
The children fall down flump	M2
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But nothing daunted up they get	N2
And cling with might and main	O2
I fear they must have caused that Cat	K2
Con si der able pain	O2
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They joggled for a mile or more	D
Then gasped out Th that's enough	P2
We th thank you kindly now let's have	Q2
A game of Blind Man's Buff	P2
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That was a game the children shrieked	R2
And laughed until they cried	S2
The Cat could never catch at all	W
However hard he tried	S2
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He chased them up he chased them down	Y
He chased them all about	T2
He chased them round and round and round	U2
Until his strength gave out	T2
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They led him to a shady wood	V2
To sniff the cooling breeze	C
And watch the poly poddy frogs	C
A jumping in the trees	C
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The frogs were shiny fat and green	T
They sat about in rows	C
And held on to the branches by	A
Their multifarious toes	C
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While there they sat a cheerful shout	T2
Rang out across the sea	B
And Fishy Winkle sighed and said	W2
I guess they're calling me	B
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The tide is in my time is up	M2
I must go home again	X2
My brothers six are beckoning me	B
Across the rolling main	O2
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The children followed in his train	O2
As far as they could get	N2
Until the water got too deep	M2
And all their clothes too wet	N2
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Be sure and come again they cried	S2
To play some other day	H
And Fishy waved a friendly hand	B2
From very far away	H
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CHAPTER III	A
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Mistress O'Hara has taken her stand	B2
With rage in her heart and a stick in her hand	B2
So fierce is her frown and so wild is her eye	A
That poor Yama Guchi feels ready to die	A
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Her patience is stretched to the end of its tether	E
She knocks all the heads of the children together	E
Then when she's reduced them to sorrow and tears	C
She repents of her harshness the poor little dears	C
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She agrees to forget and forgive just once more	D
And homewards they stroll by the sunshiny shore	D
You can see by the picture how happy they look	I
On the next page you'll see the effect on	O
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the COOK	I