THE OLD GUMBIE CAT

◆I have a Gumbie cat in mind Her name is Jennyanydots ◆Her coat is of the tabby kind ◆with tiger stripes and leopard spots ◆All day she sits upon the stairs or on the steps or on the mat ◆She sits and sits and sits and sits ◆And that's what makes a Gumbie cat ◆That's what makes a Gumbie cat ●But When the day's hustle and bustle is done ●Then the Gumbie cat's work is but hardly begun ●And when all the family's in bed and asleep ●I tuck up my skirts, to the basement to creep ●I am deeply concerned with the ways of the mice ●Their behaviour's not good and their manner's not nice ●So when I have got them lined up on the matting ●I teach them music, crocheting and tatting ◆I have a Gumbie cat in mind Her name is Jennyanydots ◆The curtain cord she likes to wind and tie it into sailor-knots ◆She sits upon the window sill ◆or anything that's smooth and flat ◆She sits and sits and sits and sits ◆And that's what makes a Gumbie cat ◆That's what makes a Gumbie cat ●But When the day's hustle and bustle is done ●Then the Gumbie cat's work is but hardly begun ●I think that cockroaches need employment ●To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment ●So I've formed from that lot of disorderly louts ●A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy scouts ●With a purpose in life and a good deed to do ●And I've even created a beetles tattoo ●So for old Gumbie cat, let us now give three cheers ●On whom well ordered households depend, it appears ●Three cheers! Three cheers! Three cheers! Thank you my dears!