the huffle of a snail in DANGER!!

I had to post this A.A. Milne poem because it is beaucoup ADORABLE (I particularly like that phrase " huffle of a snail in danger" and I wonder at what such a huffle sounds like exactly..)

Appreciation of this poem is especially apropos today as A.A. Milne was born Jan 18, 1882.

The Four Friends

Ernest was an elephant, a great big fellow,

Leonard was a lion with a six foot tail

George was a goat, and his beard was yellow,

And James was a very small snail.

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Leonard had a stall, and a

great big strong one,

Earnest had a manger, and its walls were thick,

George found a pen, but I think it was the wrong one

And James sat down on a brick

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Earnest started trumpeting, and cracked

his manger,

Leonard started roaring, and shivered his stall,

James gave a huffle of a snail in danger

And nobody heard him at all

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Earnest started trumpeting and raised such a rumpus,

Leonard started roaring and trying to kick,

James went on a journey with the goats new compass

And he reached the end of his brick.

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Ernest was an elephant and very well intentioned,

Leonard was a lion with a brave new tail,

George was a goat, as I think I have mentioned,

but James was only a snail.

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~~~~~~~FIN~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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How freakin' adorable is that??
We also have Milne to thank for this (was going to embed the vid, but I didn't want it to have to compete with Revolutionary War hero Grover from earlier).

Uhhh, behind-the-scenes note here...blogger is PISSING ME RIGHT THE &^%#@ OFF. It seems to have problems taking instruction when I'm misappropriating famous poetry or something... it wouldn't let me insert a line of space between stanzas and then it wouldn't accept any space between the poem's end and "How freakin' adorable is that?" MOST irksome. The only way I could rig the post so that it looked halfway decent is to fill the "space" with characters. Hence my excess of ~~~ in this friggen' post.

Grr. Anyways...ciao babies. Hope y'all have a terrif weekend!