Versos English Edward Lear Nonsense Books: The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple, Chapter VI: The History of the Seven Young Storks

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Nonsense Books: The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple, Chapter VI: The History of the Seven Young Storks

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So, being hungry, they immediately flew at him, and were going to divide him into seven pieces, when they began to quarrel as to which of his legs should be taken off first. One said this, and another said that; and while they were all quarrelling, the frog hopped away. And when they saw that he was gone, they began to chatter-clatter, blatter-platter, patter-blatter, matter-clatter, flatter-quatter, more violently than ever; and after they had fought for a week, they pecked each other all to little pieces, so that at last nothing was left of any of them except their bills.