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We fairly raced across the sky,
The Roly-Poly Bird and I,
And landed safely just beyond
The fringes of the lily-pond.
When I got home I never told
A solitary single soul
What I had done or where I’d been
Or any of the things I’d seen.
I did not even say I rode
Upon a giant jumping toad,
’Cause if I had, I knew that they
Would not believe me anyway.
But you and I know well it’s true.
We know I jumped, we know I flew.
We’re sure it all took place, although
Not one of us will ever know,
We’ll never, never understand
Why children go to Wonderland.
The Tummy Beast
One afternoon I said to mummy,
“Who is this person in my tummy?
“He must be small and very thin
“Or how could he have gotten in?”
My mother said from where she sat,
“It isn’t nice to talk like that.”
“It’s true!” I cried. “I swear it, mummy!
“There is a person in my tummy!
“He talks to me at night in bed,
“He’s always asking to be fed,
“Throughout the day, he screams at me,
