Said the Table to the Chair, <br />'You can hardly be aware <br />How I suffer from the heat, <br />And from chilblains on my feet! <br />If we took a little walk, <br />We might have a little talk! <br />Pray let us take the air!' <br />Said the Table to the Chair. <br /> <br />Said the Chair unto the Table, <br />'Now you know we are not able! <br />How foolishly you talk, <br />When you know we cannot walk!' <br />Said the Table with a sigh, <br />'It can do no harm to try; <br />I've as many legs as you; <br />Why can't we walk on two?' <br /> <br />So they both went slowly down, <br />And walked about the town <br />With a cheerful bumpy sound, <br />As they toddled round and round. <br />And everybody cried, <br />As they hastened to their side, <br />'See! the Table and the Chair <br />Have come out to take the air!' <br /> <br />But, in going down an alley <br />To a castle in the valley, <br />They completely lost their way, <br />And wandered all the day <br />Till, to see them safely back, <br />They paid a Ducky-quack, <br />And a Beetle, and a Mouse, <br />Who took them to their house. <br /> <br />Then they whispered to each other, <br />'O delightful little brother! <br />What a lovely walk we've taken! <br />Let us dine on Beans and Bacon!' <br />So the Ducky and the leetle <br />Browny-Mousy and the Beetle <br />Dined, and danced upon their heads <br />Till they toddled to their beds.<br /><br />Edward Lear<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-table-and-the-chair/
