(原版)澳大利亚语文第二册 LESSON 19
LESSON 19 THE CLUCKING HEN
THE CLUCKING HEN
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1. Will you take a walk with me
My little wife, to-day?
There's barley in the barley field,
And hay-seed in the hay."
2. "Thank you," said the clucking hen,
"I've something else to do;
I'm busy sitting on my eggs,
I cannot walk with you."
3. "Cluck! cluck! cluck! cluck!"
Said the clucking hen;
"My little chicks will soon be hatched,
I'll think about it then."
4. The clucking hen sat on her nest,
She made it in the hay;
And warm and snug beneath her breast
A dozen white eggs lay.
5. Crack, crack, went all the eggs,
Out dropped the chickens small.
"Cluck!" said the clucking hen,
"Now I have you all!"
6. "Come along, my little chicks,
I'll take a walk with YOU."
"Hallo!" said the barn-door cock,
"Cock-a-doodle-do!"
—Aunt Effie's Rhymes
