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Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer

Macavity!

Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer, we're a notorious couple of cats.
Ad knockabout clowns, quick change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats.
We had an extensive reputation, we make our home in Victoria Grove.
That is merely our center of operation,
For we are incurably given to rove.

When the family assembles for Sunday dinner,
Their minds made up that they won't get thinner
On Argentine joint, potatoes and greens,
Then the cook would appear behind the scenes,
And say in a voice that is broken with sorrow, "I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow!
The joint has gone from the owen like that!"

Then the family would say, "It's that horrible cat!"

It was Mungojerrie, or Rumpleteazer!
And most of the time they leave it at that.

Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer have a wonderful way of working together.
And some of the time you would say it was luck,
and some of the time you would say it was weather.
We go through the house like a hurricane,
and no sober person could take his oath.
Was it Mungojerrie, or Rumpleteazer?
Or could you have sworn that it mightn't be both?

And when you hear a dining room SMASH,
or up from the pantry there comes a loud CRASH,
or down from the library there cmes a loud PING,
From a vase that was commonly said to be Ming.

Then the family would say: "Now which was which cat?!"
It was Mungojerrie...
...*AND* Rumpleteazer!
And there's nothing at all to be done about that!