Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Childhood Memories ~ The Bunkum Book


A Topsy Turvy Tale ~ by Aubrey Hopwood
Illustrated by Maud Trelawny

Frederick Warne & Co
London / New York 1900


A Million miles from Anywhere
Is Topsy Turvy Land,
Where trees have roots that grow in air,
And branches in the sand;

The skies are green instead of blue,
And happy people frown;
For every single thing they do
Is always upside down.

A hundred thousand years ago,
The people woke one night;
They always slept all day, you know,
So this was only right.

Each native stood upon his head
And racked his addled pate:
"Our country's upside down," they said,
"How can we put it straight ?"

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