24 October, 2011

Rules & Regulations

Learn well your grammar,
And never stammer,
Write well and neatly,
And sing most sweetly, 
Be enterprising,
Love early rising, 
Go for walks of six miles, 
Have ready quick smiles,
With lightsome laughter, 
Soft, flowing after.


Drink tea, not coffee;
Never eat toffy.
Eat bread with butter. 
Once more, don't stutter.
Don't waste your money, 
Abstain from honey.  


Shut doors behind you,
(Don't slam them, mind you), 
Drink beer, not porter.
Don't enter the water
Till to swim you are able.
Sit close to the table.
Take care of a candle.
Shut a door by the handle, 


Don't push with your shoulder
Until you are older.
Lose not a button. 
Refuse cold mutton.
Starve your canaries.
Believe in fairies.
If you are able, 
Don't have a stable
With any mangers.


Be rude to strangers.


Moral: Behave
-Charles L. Dodgson



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