Living
A Farmer in Bungleton Had a Colt
From Rhymes and Jingles (1875)
Living
A farmer in Bungleton had a colt
That couldn't be taught to moo;
And he kept his cow under lock and bolt
Till the smith could make her a shoe.
His ducks wouldn't gobble, his geese wouldn't quack,
His cat couldn't bark at all.
"I'm clean discouraged!" he cried; "alack!
I'll give up my farm in the fall."
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MLA
Dodge, Mary Mapes. “A Farmer in Bungleton Had a Colt.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dodge_mm/36/.
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Dodge, Mary Mapes. “A Farmer in Bungleton Had a Colt.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dodge_mm/36/.
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