With Appetite

My guinea-pigs are funny pigs! I give them ginger-bread and figs And cough-drops sometimes. Now and then I put these in their little pen; (Though it is not a pen—but 'hutch'), They like the cough-drops very much, For when I ask them, they say, "Oui! Oui, oui, oui, oui, oui, oui, oui, oui!" They make it sound so sweet and low— And it is French for "Yes"—you know. Of course I do not give them pie Or they would all curl up and die! It's better far to feed them cheese, And ice cream that you cannot freeze. They've no idea when dinner's done But keep on dining just for fun— Though one's a long-haired 'ristocrat And fussy about this and that; He won't take taffy; not a bit! (He gets too tangled up in it.) But he's the one that just loves figs— O guinea-pigs are funny pigs!