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Ladies and Gentlemen, Skinny and Stout
Ladies and Gentlemen, skinny and stout,
I'll tell you a tale I know nothing about;
The Admission is free. so pay at the door.
Now pull up a chair and sit on the floor.
One fine day in the middle of the night.
Two dead boys got up to fight:
Back to back they faced each other.
Drew their swords and shot each other.
A blind man came to watch fair play,
A mute man came to shout 'Horray!
A deaf policeman heard the noise and
Came to stop those two dead boys.
He lived on the corner in the middle of the block.
In a two-story house on a vacant lot:
A man With no legs came walking by.
and kicked the lawman in his thigh.
He crashed through a wall without making a sound,
into a dry creek bed and suddenly drowned;
The long black hearse came to cart him away,
But he ran for his life and is still gone today.
I watched from the corner of the big round table.
The only eyewitness to facts of my fable;
But if you doubt mg lies are true,
Just ask the blind man, he saw it too.
Available Answers
- 1.
Imagine a life where topsy-turvy is normal. Humans walk on the sky and aeroplanes fly on the ground. We wear pyjamas on our arms and shirts on our legs. Write six things that could happen in such a world.
- 2.
Daisy narrates the summary of the poem to her brother, Roland. Help her recall it correctly by underlining the correct options.
'Roland, I read a strange poem! The narrator of the poem says that there is no admission fee to listen to the story but then listeners need to earn/pay/wait for the narration. In the narrator's story, it was daytime and also midnight/evening/breakfast- time when two dead/injured/unconscious boys began fighting. Then they shot each other through they had just eaten cake/drawn swords/pulled each other's ears. Chaos broke out when a rude/tall/blind man saw the fight and a deaf policeman heard/saw/sensed it too and came to put an end to it. When a man no nose/hair/legs kicked him, the policeman trumbled and drowned in a stinky/dry/green creek. He died but also rushed to the hospital/woke up and screamed/ran for his life! The narrator even asks the listeners to confirm the true story/the lies/the dream by asking the dead/asleep/blind man who saw all the actions.'
- 3.
Came to stop those two dead boys.
- Who came to stop the boys?
- What were the boys doing?
- Could he save the boys? Why/Why not?
- 4.
The only eyewitness to facts of my fable
- Who was the only eyewitness to the facts of the fable?
- What were those facts?
- Did anyone else witness those facts as well?
- 5.
Where did the narrator ask the listeners to sit?
- 6.
Who came and shouted 'Horray'?
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