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Hello. My name's Sam.

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I've come to read you a bedtime story.

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And tonight's is one of my favourites.

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It's a very old nonsense poem.

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It's called that because it's full of strange and silly things.

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It's called The Jumblies, and it's by Edward Lear.

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The pictures are by Sam McPhillips.

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Are you sitting comfortably?

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Then I'll begin.

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They went to sea in a sieve, they did,

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In a sieve they went to sea.

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In spite of all their friends could say,

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On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,

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In a sieve they went to sea!

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And when the sieve turned round and round,

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And every one cried, "You'll all be drowned!"

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They called aloud,

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"Our sieve ain't big, but we don't care a button!

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"We don't care a fig! In a sieve we'll go to sea!'"

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Far and few, far and few,

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Are the lands where the Jumblies live.

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Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,

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And they went to sea in a sieve.

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They sailed away in a sieve, they did,

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In a sieve they sailed so fast,

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With only a beautiful pea-green veil

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Tied with a riband by way of a sail,

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To a small tobacco-pipe mast.

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And every one said, who saw them go,

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"Oh, won't they be soon upset, you know!

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"For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long,

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"And happen what may, it's extremely wrong,"

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In a sieve to sail so fast!'

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Far and few, far and few,

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Are the lands where the Jumblies live.

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Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,

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And they went to sea in a sieve.

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The water it soon came in, it did,

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The water it soon came in.

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So to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet

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In a pinky paper all folded neat,

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And they fastened it down with a pin.

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And they passed the night in a crockery-jar,

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And each of them said, "How wise we are!

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"Though the sky be dark, and the voyage be long,

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"Yet we never can think we were rash or wrong,

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"While round in our sieve we spin!"

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Far and few, far and few,

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Are the lands where the Jumblies live.

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Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,

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And they went to sea in a sieve.

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And all night long they sailed away,

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And when the sun went down,

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They whistled and warbled a moony song

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To the echoing sound of a coppery gong,

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In the shade of the mountains brown.

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"O Timballo! How happy we are,

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"When we live in a sieve and a crockery-jar,

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"And all night long in the moonlight pale,

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"We sail away with a pea-green sail,

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"In the shade of the mountains brown!"

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Far and few, far and few,

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Are the lands where the Jumblies live.

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Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,

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And they went to sea in a sieve.

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They sailed to the Western Sea, they did,

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To a land all covered with trees,

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And they bought an owl, and a useful cart,

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And a pound of rice, and a cranberry tart,

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And a hive of silvery bees.

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And they bought a pig, and some green jack-daws,

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And a lovely monkey with lollipop paws,

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And 40 bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree,

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And no end of Stilton cheese.

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Far and few, far and few,

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Are the lands where the Jumblies live.

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Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,

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And they went to sea in a sieve.

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And in 20 years they all came back,

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In 20 years or more,

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And every one said, "How tall they've grown!

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"For they've been to the lakes, and the Torrible Zone,

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"And the hills of the Chankly Bore."

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And they drank their health, and gave them a feast

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Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast.

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And everyone said, "If we only live,

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"We too will go to sea in a sieve,

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"To the hills of the Chankly Bore!"

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Far and few, far and few,

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Are the lands where the Jumblies live.

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Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,

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And they went to sea in a sieve.

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I hope you enjoyed that funny story. It was called The Jumblies.

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Now it's time for you to climb into your own little sieve boat

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and sail off to sleep.

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I hope you have sweet dreams.

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See you soon.

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