Said the duck to the kangaroo,
"Good gracious! how you hope!
Over the fields and the Water too,
as if you never would stop!
My life is a bore in this nasty pond, and I long to go out in the world beyond!
I wish I could hope like you! "
said the duck to the kangaroo.


"please give me a ride on your back! "
said the duck to the kangaroo,
" I would sit quit still, and say nothing but 'Quack'
the whole of the long day through!
And we'd go to the Dee, and the jelly Bo Lee,
Over the land ,and over the sea;
please take me a ride! O do! " said the duck to the kangaroo.


"This requires some little reflection;
perhaps on the whole it might bring me luck,
And their seems but one objection.
Which is, if you will let me speak so bold,
your feet are unpleasantly wet and cold.
And would Probably give me the roo-Matiz! " said the kangaroo.

Said the duck, " As I set on the rocks,
I have thought over that completely, And I bought four pairs of worsted socks
Which feet my way it neatly. And to keep out the cold I have bought a cloak,
and everyday is cigar I will smoke, All to follow my on dear true love of a kangaroo! "


Said the kangaroo, "I'm ready!
All in the moonlight pale;
but to balance me well, dear duck, sit steady! And quit at the end of my tail! "
so away they went with a hope and a bound, and they hot the whole world three times round; and who so happy_O who, As the duck and the kangaroo?