Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer we're a notorious
couple of cats.
As knockabout clown, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers
and acrobats
We have an extensive reputation. We've make our home in Victoria
Grove-
This is merely our centre of operation, for we are incurably
given to rove.
When the family assembled for Sunday dinner,
With their minds made up that they wouldn' t get thinner
On Argentine joint, potatoes and greens,
And the cook would appear from behind the scenes
And say in a voice that was broken with sorrow:
"I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow!
The joint has gone from the oven-like that!"
Then the family would say: "It's that horrible cat!
Was it Mungojerrie- or Rumpelteazer!"- And most of the time
they leave it at that.
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have a wonderful
way of working together.
And some of the time you would say it was luck, and some of the
time you would say it was weather.
We go through the house like a hurricane, and no sober person
could take his oath
Was it Mungojerrie- or Rumpelteazer? Or could you have sworn that
it mightn't be both?
And when you hear a dining-room smash
Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash
Or down from the library came a loud ping
--From a vase which was commonly said to be Ming-
Then the family would say: "Now which was which cat?"
It was Mungojerrie- and Rumpelteazer!"
- And most of the time they leave it at that.
- And most of the time they leave it at that.