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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391046" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The two little skeezucks</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle<br> Of Boo in a southern sea;<br>They clambered and rollicked in heathenish style<br> In the boughs of their cocoanut tree.<br>They didn't fret much about clothing and such<br> And they recked not a whit of the ills<br> That sometimes accrue<br> From having to do<br>With tailor and laundry bills.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The two little skeezucks once heard of a Fair<br> Far off from their native isle,<br>And they asked of King Fan if they mightn't go there<br> To take in the sights for awhile.<br> Now old King Fan<br> Was a good-natured man<br>(As good-natured monarchs go),<br>And howbeit he swore that all Fairs were a bore,<br>He hadn't the heart to say &quot;No.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the two little skeezucks sailed off to the Fair<br> In a great big gum canoe,<br>And I fancy they had a good time there,<br> For they tarried a year or two.<br>And old King Fan at last began<br> To reckon they'd come to grief,<br> When glory! one day<br> They sailed into the bay<br>To the tune of &quot;Hail to the Chief!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The two little skeezucks fell down on the sand,<br> Embracing his majesty's toes,<br>Till his majesty graciously bade them stand<br> And salute him nose to nose.<br> And then quoth he:<br> &quot;Divulge unto me<br> What happenings have hapt to you;<br>And how did they dare to indulge in a Fair<br> So far from the island of Boo?&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The two little skeezucks assured their king<br> That what he surmised was true;<br>That the Fair would have been a different thing<br> Had it only been held in Boo!<br>&quot;The folk over there in no wise compare<br> With the folk of the southern seas;<br> Why, they comb out their heads<br> And they sleep in beds<br>Instead of in caverns and trees!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The two little skeezucks went on to say<br> That children (so far as they knew)<br>Had a much harder time in that land far away<br> Than here in the island of Boo!<br> They have to wear clo'es<br> Which (as every one knows)<br> Are irksome to primitive laddies,<br>While, with forks and with spoons, they're denied the sweet boons<br>That accrue from free use of one's paddies!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;And now that you're speaking of things to eat,&quot;<br> Interrupted the monarch of Boo,<br>&quot;We beg to inquire if you happened to meet<br> With a nice missionary or two?&quot;<br>&quot;No, that we did not; in that curious spot<br>Where were gathered the fruits of the earth,<br> Of that special kind<br> Which Your Nibs has in mind<br>There appeared a deplorable dearth!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then loud laughed that monarch in heathenish mirth<br> And loud laughed his courtiers, too,<br>And they cried: &quot;There is elsewhere no land upon earth<br> So good as our island of Boo!&quot;<br> And the skeezucks, tho' glad<br> Of the journey they'd had,<br> Climbed up in their cocoanut trees,<br>Where they still may be seen with no shirts to keep clean<br> Or trousers that bag at the knees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</a><div class=q>
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 Of Boo in a southern sea;
They clambered and rollicked in heathenish style
 In the boughs of their cocoanut tree.
They didn't fret much about clothing and such
 And they recked not a whit of t..."></div>
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