Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer

As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians, Tightrope walkers, and acrobats.

We have 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 from behind the scenes.

And say in a voice that is broken with sorrow, I’m afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow, For the joint has gone from the oven like that!

Then the family will say, “It’s that horrible cat!”

Was it 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 might have been both?!?

And when you hear a dinning room smash, Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash! Or down from the library came a loud “PING”!!! From a vase that was commonly said to be Ming-g-g-g-g.

Then the family will say: Now which was which cat?

It was…MUNGOJERRIE!

AND!!!…RUMPLETEAZER!!!

And There’s nothing at all to be done about that!

And there’s nothing at all to be done about that!