The Jumblies Magic Hands

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I've got some tricks.

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My name is...

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Look at what my hands can do.

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It's full of holes! Do you know what it is?

It's a sieve.

There are so many things you can

do with a sieve.

You can wear it as a cool cap.

Or put it over your face and pretend

that you're a famous sword fighter.

Or you could use it to sieve flour

to make a cake.

Yummy.

But today's poem isn't anything to do with cake.

That's right.

In our poem today, some little people use this sieve as a boat.

The poem is by Edward Lear and it's called The Jumblies.

Are you ready?

They went to sea in a sieve, they did,

In a sieve they went to sea,

In spite of all their friends could say,

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

In a sieve they went to sea!

BEEP BEEP TOOT TOOT

And when the sieve turned round and round,

And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"

They called aloud, "Our sieve ain't big,

"But we don't care a button! We don't care a fig!

"In a sieve we'll got to sea!"

Far and few, far and few,

Are the lands where the Jumblies live,

Their heads are green,

and their hands are blue,

And they went to sea in a sieve.

They sailed away in a sieve, they did,

In a sieve they sailed so fast,

With only a beautiful pea-green veil

Tied with a riband by way of a sail

To a small tobacco-pipe mast,

And everyone said, who saw them go,

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

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

"And happen what may, it's extremely wrong

"In a sieve to sail so fast!"

Far and few, far and few,

Are the lands where the Jumblies live,

Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,

And they went to sea in a sieve.

The water it soon came in, it did,

The water it soon came in

So to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet

In a pinky paper all folded neat,

And they fastened it down with a pin.

And they passed the night in a crockery-jar,

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

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

"Yet we never can think we were rash or wrong

"While round in our sieve we spin!"

Far and few, far and few,

Are the lands where the Jumblies live,

Their heads are green,

and their hands are blue,

And they went to sea in a sieve.

And all night long they sailed away,

And when the sun went down,

They whistled and warbled a moony song

To the echoing sound of a coppery gong

In the shade of the mountains brown.

"O Timballo! How happy we are,

"When we live in a sieve

"and a crockery-jar,

"And all night long

"in the moonlight pale,

"We sail away with a pea-green sail,

"In the shade of the mountains brown!"

Far and few, far and few,

Are the lands where the Jumblies live,

Their heads are green,

and their hands are blue,

And they went to sea in a sieve.

They sailed to the Western Sea, they did,

To a land all covered with trees,

And they bought an owl

And a useful cart,

And a pound of rice,

And a cranberry tart,

And a hive of silvery bees.

And they bought a pig OINK OINK

and some green jack-daws,

And a lovely monkey with lollypop paws,

And 40 bottles of Ring-BoRee,

And no end of Stilton cheese

Far and few, far and few,

Are the lands where the Jumblies live,

Their heads are green,

and their hands are blue

and they went to sea

in a sieve.

And in 20 years they all came back,

In 20 years or more,

And everyone said,

"How tall they've grown!"

For they've been to the Lakes and the Torrible zone,

And the hills of the Chankly Bore.

And they drank their health,

and gave them a feast

Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast,

And everyone said,

"If we only live,

"We too will go to sea in a sieve,

"To the hills of the Chankly Bore!"

Far and few, far and few,

Are the lands where the Jumblies live,

Their heads are green,

and their hands are blue,

And they went to sea in a sieve.

What did you think?

That was wonderful

but using a holey sieve as a boat

probably isn't the best idea

if you don't want wet feet.

That's very true.

It looked like they had fun, though.

Do you want to be like a Jumbly?

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