Produced by David Edwards, Sigal Alon and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) LEAR'S NONSENSE DROLLERIES THE OWL & THE PUSSY CAT AND THE DUCK & THE KANGAROO [Illustration] WITH Original Illustrations BY WILLIAM FOSTER LONDON & NEW YORK FREDERICK WARNE AND CO. 1889 _ALL RIGHTS RESERVED._ The Owl and The Pussy-Cat. * * * * * The Duck and The Kangaroo. Nonsense Drolleries _The Owl & The Pussy-Cat--The Duck & The Kangaroo._ BY EDWARD LEAR, AUTHOR OF "THE BOOK OF NONSENSE," ETC. WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILLIAM FOSTER LONDON & NEW YORK FREDERICK WARNE AND CO. 1889 _ALL RIGHTS RESERVED._ _PUBLISHERS' PREFACE._ The almost general desire to have THE OWL and THE PUSSY-CAT, THE DUCK and THE KANGAROO, in a distinct form from Mr. LEAR's other Nonsense Drolleries, has induced us to issue them separately with Original Illustrations. FREDK. WARNE & CO. London Engraved & Printed at Racquet Court, _by_ _Edmund Evans_. [Illustration] The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note. [Illustration] The Owl looked up to the stars above, And sang to a small guitar, "O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are, You are, You are! What a beautiful Pussy you are!" [Illustration] Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl! How charmingly sweet you sing! O let us be married! too long we have tarried: But what shall we do for a ring?" [Illustration] They sailed away for a year and a day, To the land where the Bong-tree grows, And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood, With a ring at the end of his nose, His nose, His nose, With a ring at the end of his nose. [Illustration] "Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will." [Illustration] So they took it away, and were married next day By the Turkey who lives on the hill. They dined on mince, and slices of quince Which they ate with a runcible spoon; [Illustration] And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon, They danced by the light of the moon. The Duck and The Kangaroo. Said the Duck to the Kangaroo, "Good gracious! how you hop Over the fields and the water too, As if you never would stop! [Illustration] My life is a bore in this nasty pond, And I long to go out in the world beyond! [Illustration] I wish I could hop like you!" Said the Duck to the Kangaroo. [Illustration]