Here’s a poem called At the Zoo by A. A. Milne, the author of Winnie the Pooh…
At the Zoo
There are lions and roaring tigers,
and enormous camels and things,
There are biffalo-buffalo-bisons,
and a great big bear with wings.
There’s a sort of a tiny potamus,
and a tiny nosserus too-
But I gave buns to the elephant
when I went down to the Zoo!
There are badgers and bidgers and bodgers,
and a Super-in-tendent’s House,
There are masses of goats, and a Polar,
and different kinds of mouse,
And I think there’s a sort of a something
which is called a wallaboo*-
But I gave buns to the elephant
when I went down to the Zoo!
If you try to talk to the bison,
he never quite understands;
You can’t shake hands with a mingo**-
he doesn’t like shaking hands.
And lions and roaring tigers
hate saying, “How do you do?”-
But I gave buns to the elephant
when I went down to the Zoo!
*Probably a wallaby – a type of small kangaroo.
**A mingo is a fish called a vermillion snapper (similar to a red snapper).
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June 17th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Mam Lisa,
I have been trying to locate this one french song for my mom. It’s called “The little children playing in the prairies”. Have you ever heard of it? If not, can you point me in the right direction as to where I may be able to locate this song?
thank you so very much,
Jackie
June 17th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Do you know the name of the song in French?
July 18th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
i luv it
August 16th, 2018 at 6:36 pm
I think a Mingo is actually a “flamingo”