Page:Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets - Lear (1872).djvu/42

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

THE TABLE AND THE CHAIR.

I.

SSaid the Table to the Chair,
"You can hardly be aware,
"How I suffer from the heat,
"And from chilblains on my feet!
"If we took a little walk,
"We might have a little talk!
"Pray let us take the air!"
Said the Table to the Chair.

II.
Said the Chair to the Table,
"Now you know we are not able!
"How foolishly you talk,
"When you know we cannot walk!"
Said the Table with a sigh,
"It can do no harm to try;
"I've as many legs as you,
"Why can't we walk on two?"