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At the Zoo by A. A. Milne

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

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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