The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-23
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n PoChSlIul rye,
-Four and twenty black birds
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened
The birds began to sing;
Was that not a dainty dish
To set before a king?
The king was in his counting house,
Counting out his money,
The queen was in the parlor
Eating bread and honey.
The maid was in the garden
Hanging out the clothes,
When down came a black bird
And snapped off her nose.
This very ancient ard familiar nursery
thyme, in pure Anglo-Saxon, was this
week given to the members of the Eng
iish class in the Wichita High School
with instructions to each of them to par
aphrase it into classical language. There
can be no denying that the result is ex-
cruciatingIy funny. The Eagle has picked
up few of the efforts. The first given is
by a future Sarah Grand. Here it is:
MusIcaIly infect ballad of malleable
coppers concerning receptacle satiate
with cereals. A group of clamantores Of
ebony hue were made digestible in some
crusty pastry. Recently an aperture be-
ing made in the pastry, access was OBJ
tanned. The bipeds. provided with pin
ions, propelled themselves by their fun
damental basis, to the outer regions, then
commenced to MARBLE voluble strains of
lyric ordeor. What a deIectabIe morsel to
place in anterior position of a sovereign!
His majesty remained in the palace COM
putting his circulating medium. Her ma
jesty occupied a spacious apartment far
remote from the culinary department.
replenishing her interior department with
n1ucha pan and a saccharine viscid fluid.
The hand maiden was in the horticultural
department suspending wearing apparel
to a cord. Presently an ebony hued in
habitant Of the aerial regions descended
TO terra frma and proceeded to convey
the maiden's nasal apparatus to the celes-
tial regions far remote.
The next is by young gentleman. 1t
IS as follows:
Render a ballad concerning subsidiary
coin, a receptacle in your habiliment re-
plenished to repletion with certain spe-
cies Of cereal. A score and four of winged
bipeds Of plutonian aspect enveloped in
ii layer of pastry, which is transformed
by the gaseous combustion of a mineral
to rightly. When the pastry was divid-
ed so as to make it's interior very con-
spicuous, the plutonian winged bipeds
rendered the ballad before mentioned.
GastG Snomically considered, was not this
sumpluous repast for an imperial char
actef? ,The king was in his exchequer
estimating the amount of his multifarious
revenues. The queen was enjoying her
own company in the drawing room by
the extensive use of the staff of life and
a sweet liquid, the result of labor per-
formed by vast numbers of subsidized in
sects. The Abigail of the imperial lady
was on the piazza suspending the habili-
ments of the royal characters on a heX-
ible and tenacious cord. In some mys-
terious manner one of the winged bipeds
escaped from the kings sumptuous re-
past and, gliding along, deprived her face
of it's principal feature and departed.
Next is the work of a young Miss, as
follows:
Utter musical modulations about an
English coin, the capacity of one of those
spacious commodities which are inserted
in garments occupied with a cereal which
commonly bears the appellation of rye
One score and four sable fowls made edi-
BILE by complicated process. When this
dainty culinary concoction was present
ed to the vision the sable plumaged
bipeds opened their vocal organs and ex-
quisite harmonies filled the atmosphere.
Was not that an epicurean desert for the
magistrate of a nation? His majesty was
occupied with the agreeable occupation OF
taking an inventory of his worldly pos
sessions. His stately consort was seated
in the royal realm, enjoying the sweet
ness Of her daily subsistence. The hand
maiden was in the horticultural precincts
suspending garments to a cord, when one
of the featheTed species of darkest hue
who had been circling around in the
ethereal regions above her, descended
and removed the most protruding mem
Der from her physiognomy.
Next is an heroic effort by young
man:
Marble a song of sixpence. a receptacle
full of grain. Twenty-four birds of darl
color cooked in some crust When the
crust was slit the birds of dark color be
gan 10 warble. Wasn't that a hot ole
dish TO set before the monarch. The bet
ter half of the monarch was in the from
room eating baked dough and swee
stuff The hired girl was in the cult
waited ground hanging up bloomer-lik
raiment when along came a beast o
dark color and gobbled off her nasal ap
paratus.
What follows is the master hand OF :
Miss who palpably called on the diction
airy:
Produce a melody concerning a dimin
utive portion of money. A diminutiv
pooue abundantIy provided with frumenti
of the genus elynuse. Four and invent,
animals of the species AYES inclosed Il
a pastata- Recently an aperture was eff
fected The animals uttered melodies
was not that a delectable morsel to sit
uate in a position confronting the rex
His majesty was in the apartment wher
he secures his money and was compuun
his wealth. Her majesty was in an apart
ment far removed from the culinary sec
ton. consuming pastata and deliciou
luxury. The virgin was in the horticu
tural department of the domain suspend
ing the wearing apparel, when colories
animal of the specie AYES ventured mi
that region and separated the most pro
truding member of her face from her pei
son.
Here is another effort by young ger
tleman:
Let thy voice ring out in exquisite hal
mony relating to a cavity full OF graz