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The Zankiwank
We are a crowd of jolly boys, All romping on the lea;We always make this merry noise, When we return from sea.
So we go round and round and round, Because we’ve come ashore;For Topsy Turvey we are bound, So round again once more.
Go in and out of the coppice, Go in and out at the door;And do not wake the poppies, Who want to have a snore.

It was too ridiculous; they could recognise every animal they had read about in Æsop, and they were all behaving in a manner they little dreamed could be possible, out of a Night-mare. But it certainly was not a Night-mare, though they could distinguish several horses and ponies.

They never seemed to stop in their games, and even the Ants and the Gnats were playing—and above all a game of football,—though as some
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