StoryTitle("caps", "Playing Robinson Crusoe") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pussy can sit by the fire and sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Pussy can climb a tree,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or play with a silly old cork and string", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To 'muse herself, not me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I like Binkie, my dog, because", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He knows how to behave;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So, Binkie's the same as the First Friend was,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And I am the Man in the Cave.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pussy will play Man-Friday till", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It's time to wet her paw", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And make her walk on the window-sill", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "(For the footprint Crusoe saw);", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then she fluffles her tail and mews,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And scratches and won't attend.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Binkie will play whatever I choose,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And he is my true First Friend.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pussy will rub my knees with her head,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Pretending she loves me hard;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the very minute I go to my bed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Pussy runs out in the yard.", "") ?>
PagePoem(9, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And there she stays till the morning light;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So I know it is only pretend;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Binkie, he snores at my feet all night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And he is my Firstest Friend!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Rudyard Kipling.")) ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("(In \"The Just So Stories.\")")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>