Twenty froggies

This was my favourite bedtime poem that mummy use to read to me when i was tiny :)

Twenty froggies went to school, down beside a rushy pool,Twenty little coats of green, twenty vests all white and clean."We must be in time", said they; "First we study, then we play;That is how we keep the rule, when we froggies go to school."

Master Froggy, grave and stern, called the classes in their turn,Taught them how to nobly strive; likewise how to leap and dive;From his seat upon a log, showed them how to say "Kerchog!"Also how to dodge a blow from the sticks which bad boys throw.

Twenty froggies grew up fast, big frogs they became at last;Not one dunce among the lot; not one lesson they forgot;Polished to a high degree, as each froggy ought to be,Now they sit on other logs, teaching other little frogs.