The Table And The Chair.

I.     Said the Table to the Chair,     "You can hardly be aware     How I suffer from the heat     And from chilblains on my feet.     If we took a little walk,     We might have a little talk;     Pray let us take the air,"     Said the Table to the Chair.          II.     Said the Chair unto the Table,     "Now, you _know_ we are not able:     How foolishly you talk,     When you know we _cannot_ walk!"     Said the Table with a sigh,     "It can do no harm to try.     I've as many legs as you:     Why can't we walk on two?"          III.     So they both went slowly down,     And walked about the town     With a cheerful bumpy sound     As they toddled round and round;     And everybody cried,     As they hastened to their side,     "See! the Table and the Chair     Have come out to take the air!"          IV.     But in going down an alley,     To a castle in a valley,     They completely lost their way,     And wandered all the day;     Till, to see them safely back,     They paid a Ducky-quack,     And a Beetle, and a Mouse,     Who took them to their house.               V.     Then they whispered to each other,     "O delightful little brother,     What a lovely walk we've taken!     Let us dine on beans and bacon."     So the Ducky and the leetle     Browny-Mousy and the Beetle     Dined, and danced upon their heads     Till they toddled to their beds.