
Frogs at school
Frogs at school
Twenty froggies went to school,
Down beside a rushy pool;
Twenty little coats of green,
Twenty vests all white and clean.
We must be in time; said they;
First we study, then we play;
That is how we keep the rule
When we froggies go to school.
Master bullfrog, grave and stern,
Called the classes in their turn;
Taught them how to nobly strive,
Likewise how to leap and dive;
From his seat upon the log
Showed them how to say, ‘ker-chog!’
Also, how to dodge a blow
From the sticks which bad bays throw.
Twenty froggies grew up fast,
Bullfrogs they became at last;
Not one dunce among the lot,
Not one lesson they forgot.
Polished in a high degree,
As each froggie ought to be,
Now they sit on other logs,
Teaching other little frogs.
By George Cooper