Together with some account of the participation of the Pugs and Poms
And the intervention of the great
Rumpus Cat!
The Pekes and the Pollicles everyone knows
Are proud and implacable passionate foes
It is always the same
Where ever one goes
And the pugs and the poms, although most people say
That they do not like fighting, yet once in a way
Will now and again join into the fray
And they bark, bark
Bark, bark
Bark, bark
BARK, BARK!
Until you can here them all over the park
Now on the occasion of which I shall speak
Almost nothing had happened for nearly a week
(And that's a long time for a Pol or a Peke)
The big police dog was away from his beat
I don't know the reason but some people think
He slipped into Wellington Arms for a drink
And no one at all
Was about on the street
When a Peke and a Pollicle
Happened to meet
They did not advance
Or exactly retreat
But they glared at eachother
And scraped their hind feet
And started to bark, bark
Bark, bark
Bark, bark
BARK, BARK!
Until you could hear them all over the park
Now the Peke, although people may say what they please,
Is no British dog but a heathen Chinese
And so all the Pekes, when they heard the uproar,
Some came to the window, some came to the door
There was surely a dozen, moe likely a score
And together they started to grumble and wheeze
Their huffery, snuffery heathen Chinese
But a terrible din is what Pollicles like
For your Pollicle dog is a dour Yorkshire tyke
There are dogs out of every nation
The Irish, the Welsh, and the Dane
The Russian, the Dutch, and Dalmation
And even from China and Spain
There's the Poodle, the Pom, the Alsatian
And the Mastiff who walks on a chain
And the those that are frisky and follicle
That my meaning be perfectly plain
That his name it is Little Tom Pollicle
And he'd better not do it again
For his braw Scottish cousins are snappers and biters
And every dog-jack of them notable fighters
And so they stepped out with their pipers in order
Playing When The Blue Bonnets Came Over The Border
Then the Pugs and the Poms held no longer aloof
And some from the balcony, some from the roof
Joined into the din with a
Bark, bark
Bark, bark
Bark, bark
BARK, BARK!
Until you could hear them all over the park
Now when these bold heroes
Together assembled
The traffic all stopped
And the underground trembled
And some of the neighbors were so much afraid
That they started to ring up the Fire Brigade!
When suddenly up from a small basement flat
Why, who should stalk out but the-
GREAT RUMPUS CAT!
His eyes were like fireballs
Fearlessly blazing
He gave a great yawn
And his jaws were amazing
And when he looked out
Of the bars of the area
You never saw anything fiercer
Or hairier
And what with a glare of his eyes and his yawning
The Pekes and the Pollicles quickly took warning
He looke to the sky and he gave a great leap
And they every last one of them scattered like sheep
And when the Police dog returned to his beat
There wasn't a single one left on the street
All hail and all bow to the Great Rumpus Cat!