StoryTitle("caps", "The Peddler's Caravan") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(46, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I wish I lived in a caravan,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a horse to drive like a peddler-man!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where he comes from nobody knows,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or where he goes to, but on he goes!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His caravan has windows two, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a chimney of tin, that the smoke comes through; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He has a wife, with a baby brown, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And they go riding from town to town.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chairs to mend, and delf to sell!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He clashes the basins like a bell;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tea trays, baskets ranged in order, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Plates, with alphabets round the border!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The roads are brown, and the sea is green,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But his home is like a bathing-machine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The world is round, and he can ride, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rumble and slash, to the other side! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With the peddler-man I should like to roam,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And write a book when I came home;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the people would read my book,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Just like the Travels of Captain Cook!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—William Brighty Rands. ")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>