The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple
by Edward Lear
Chapter XI

THE HISTORY OF THE SEVEN YOUNG FISHES

The seven young Fishes swam across the Lake Pipple-Popple, and into the river, and into the ocean; where, most unhappily for them, they saw, on the fifteenth day of their travels, a bright-blue Boss-Woss, and instantly swam after him. But the Blue Boss-Woss plunged into a

perpendicular,

spicular,

orbicular,

quadrangular,

circular depth of soft mud;

where, in fact, his house was.

And the seven young Fishes, swimming with great and uncomfortable velocity, plunged also into the mud quite against their will, and, not being accustomed to it, were all suffocated in a very short period.

And that was the end of the seven young Fishes.