Nature
Some Fishy Nonsense
From In My Nursery (1890)
Nature
Timothy Tiggs and Tomothy Toggs,
They both went a-fishing for pollothywogs;
They both went a-fishing
Because they were wishing
To see how the creatures would turn into frogs.
Timothy Tiggs and Tomothy Toggs,
They both got stuck in the bogothybogs;
They caught a small minnow,
And said 'twas a sin oh!
That things with no legs should pretend to be frogs.
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Richards, Laura E. “Some Fishy Nonsense.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/richards_l/104/.
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Richards, Laura E. “Some Fishy Nonsense.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/richards_l/104/.
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