The Pobble Who Has No Toes [Edward Lear]-Kenneth Williams

[ti:The Pobble Who Has No Toes (Edward Lear)] [ar:Kenneth Williams] [al:Parlour Poetry - Comic, Patriotic and Improving Verse from the Victorian Age] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Pobble Who Has No Toes [Edward Lear] - Kenneth Williams [00:00.70]The Pobble who has no toes [00:02.36]Had once as many as we [00:03.97]When they said [00:04.77]Some day you may lose them all [00:06.45]He replied [00:07.17]Fish fiddle-de-dee [00:08.53] [00:09.60]And his Aunt Jobiska made him drink [00:11.25]Lavender water tinged with pink [00:13.24]For she said [00:14.00]The World in general knows [00:16.04]There's nothing so good for a Pobble's toes [00:18.51] [00:20.00]The Pobble who has no toes [00:21.40]Swam across the Bristol Channel [00:23.40]But before he set out he wrapped his nose [00:25.54]In a piece of scarlet flannel [00:27.24]For his Aunt Jobiska said [00:29.05]No harm [00:29.94]Can come to his toes if his nose is warm [00:33.13]And it's perfectly known that a Pobble's toes [00:36.01]Are safe provided he minds his nose [00:38.86] [00:40.59]The Pobble swam fast and well [00:42.36]And when boats or ships came near him [00:44.31]He tinkledy-blinkledy-winkled a bell [00:46.40]So that all the world could hear him [00:48.24]And all the Sailors and Admirals cried [00:50.42]When they saw him nearing the further side [00:52.42]He has gone to fish for his Aunt Jobiska's [00:54.68]Runcible Cat with crimson whiskers [00:56.60] [00:57.72]But before he touched the shore [00:59.24]The shore of the Bristol Channel [01:00.96]A sea-green porpoise carried away [01:03.04]His wrapper of scarlet flannel [01:04.62]And when he came to observe his feet [01:06.88]Formerly garnished with toes so neat [01:09.09]His face at once became forlorn [01:11.89]On perceiving that all his toes were gone [01:14.40] [01:15.49]And nobody ever knew [01:17.20]From that dark day to the present [01:19.12]Whoso had taken the Pobble's toes [01:20.98]In a manner so far from pleasant [01:22.64]Whether the shrimps or crawfish grey [01:24.73]Or crafty Mermaids stole them away [01:26.58]Nobody knew and nobody knows [01:28.88]How the Pobble was robbed of his twice five toes [01:32.13] [01:33.87]The Pobble who has no toes [01:35.56]Was placed in a friendly Bark [01:37.34]And they rowed him back and carried him up [01:39.34]To his Aunt Jobiska's Park [01:41.03]And she made him a feast at his earnest wish [01:43.56]Of eggs and buttercups fried with fish [01:46.91]And she said [01:47.82]It's a fact the whole world knows [01:50.48]That Pobbles are happier without their toes