U.Y.K. and N.D.L. Know Pau Amma 's home as well As the fisher of the Sea knows ` Bens , ' M.M. 's , and Rubattinos . But -LRB- and this is rather queer -RRB- A.T.L. 's can not come here ; O. and O. and D.O.A. Must go round another way . Orient , Anchor , Bibby , Hall , Never go that way at all . U.C.S. would have a fit If it found itself on it . And if ` Beavers ' took their cargoes To Penang instead of Lagos , Or a fat Shaw-Savill bore Passengers to Singapore , Or a White Star were to try a Little trip to Sourabaya , Or a B.S.A. went on Past Natal to Cheribon , Then great Mr. Lloyds would come With a wire and drag them home ! You 'll know what my riddle means When you 've eaten mangosteens . Or if you ca n't wait till then , ask them to let you have the outside page of the Times ; turn over to page 2 where it is marked ` Shipping ' on the top left hand ; then take the Atlas -LRB- and that is the finest picture-book in the world -RRB- and see how the names of the places that the steamers go to fit into the names of the places on the map . Any steamer-kiddy ought to be able to do that ; but if you ca n't read , ask some one to show it you . THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF HEAR and attend and listen ; for this befell and behappened and became and was , O my Best Beloved , when the Tame animals were wild . The Dog was wild , and the Horse was wild , and the Cow was wild , and the Sheep was wild , and the Pig was wild -- as wild as wild could be -- and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones . But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat . He walked by himself , and all places were alike to him . Of course the Man was wild too . He was dreadfully wild . He did n't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman , and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways . She picked out a nice dry Cave , instead of a heap of wet leaves , to lie down in ; and she strewed clean sand on the floor ; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave ; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin , tail-down , across the opening of the Cave ; and she said , ` Wipe you feet , dear , when you come in , and now we 'll keep house . ' That night , Best Beloved , they ate wild sheep roasted on the hot stones , and flavoured with wild garlic and wild pepper ; and wild duck stuffed with wild rice and wild fenugreek and wild coriander ; and marrow-bones of wild oxen ; and wild cherries , and wild grenadillas . Then the Man went to sleep in front of the fire ever so happy ; but the Woman sat up , combing her hair . She took the bone of the shoulder of mutton -- the big fat blade-bone -- and she looked at the wonderful marks on it , and she threw more wood on the fire , and she made a Magic . She made the First Singing Magic in the world .
Out in the Wet Wild Woods all the wild animals gathered together where they could see the light of the XXXXX a long way off , and they wondered what it meant .
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