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Re: gingham dog & calico cat

Posted by Cathy W. Neuner on September 29, 2000 at 15:22:41:

In Reply to: gingham dog & calico cat posted by lee on September 28, 2000 at 18:06:22:

It's entitled "The Duel" and it's by Eugene Field. I have it in my Dover Favorite Poems of Childhood.

The gigham dog and the calico cat
side by side on the table sat;
"T'was half-past twelve, and (what do you think!)
Nor one nor t'other had slept a wink!
The old Dutch clock and the Chinese plate
Appeared to know as sure as fate
There was going to be a terrile spat.
(I wan't there, I simply state
What was told to me by the Chinese plate!)

The gingham dog went "Bow-wow-wow!"
And the claico cat replied "Mee-ow!"
The air was littered, an hour or so,
With bits of gingham and calico,
While the old Dutch clock in the chimney place
Up with its hand before its face,
For it always dreaded a family row!
(now mind: I'm only telling you
What the old Dutch clock declares is true!)

The Chinese plate looked very blue,
And wailed,"Oh dear! what shall we do!"
But the gingham dog and the calico cat
Wallowed this way, and tumbled that,
Employing every tooth and claw
In the awfullest way you ever saw--And, oh! How the gingham and calico flew!
(Don't fancy I exaggerate--
I got my news from the Chinese plate!)

Next morning where the two had sat
They found no trace of dog ot cat;
And some folks think unto this day
That burglars stole that pair away!
But the truth about the cat and pup
Is this: They ate each other up!
Now what do you really think of that!
(The old Dutch clock it told me so,
And that is how I came to know.)

Eugene Field is also credited with writing "Wynken, Blyken and Nod" or (the title in my book) "Dutch Lullaby"


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