I let them rest from nine till five . For I am busy then , As well as breakfast , lunch , and tea , For they are hungry men : But different folk have different views : I know a person small -- She keeps ten million serving-men , Who get no rest at all ! She sends 'em abroad on her own affairs , From the second she opens her eyes -- One million Hows , two million Wheres , And seven million Whys ! THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROO NOT always was the Kangaroo as now we do behold him , but a Different Animal with four short legs . He was grey and he was woolly , and his pride was inordinate : he danced on an outcrop in the middle of Australia , and he went to the Little God Nqa . He went to Nqa at six before breakfast , saying , ` Make me different from all other animals by five this afternoon . ' Up jumped Nqa from his seat on the sandflat and shouted , ` Go away ! ' He was grey and he was woolly , and his pride was inordinate : he danced on a rock-ledge in the middle of Australia , and he went to the Middle God Nquing . He went to Nquing at eight after breakfast , saying , ` Make me different from all other animals ; make me , also , wonderfully popular by five this afternoon . ' Up jumped Nquing from his burrow in the spinifex and shouted , ` Go away ! ' He was grey and he was woolly , and his pride was inordinate : he danced on a sandbank in the middle of Australia , and he went to the Big God Nqong . He went to Nqong at ten before dinner-time , saying , ` Make me different from all other animals ; make me popular and wonderfully run after by five this afternoon . ' Up jumped Nqong from his bath in the salt-pan and shouted , ` Yes , I will ! ' Nqong called Dingo -- Yellow-Dog Dingo -- always hungry , dusty in the sunshine , and showed him Kangaroo . Nqong said , ` Dingo ! Wake up , Dingo ! Do you see that gentleman dancing on an ashpit ? He wants to be popular and very truly run after . Dingo , make him SO ! ' Up jumped Dingo -- Yellow-Dog Dingo -- and said , ` What , that cat-rabbit ? '
Off ran Dingo -- XXXXX Dingo -- always hungry , grinning like a coal-scuttle , -- ran after Kangaroo .
Dingo Hows Nquing Wheres Yellow-Dog afternoon ashpit dinner-time sandbank spinifex