Literature
Clever Gretel
There once was a cook named Gretel
Who drank wine and drank wine
By the glass
By the gallon,
Yes, she drank wine heartily
By the glass and gallon.
The wine gave Gretel such an appetite
That she ate all of her own dishes.
She nipped
And picked
At all her dishes,
Until they were all quite gone.
The master said one day, "A guest is coming.
Roast for us two plump fowl
Until they're juicy
Until they're tender,
Serve us two roasted fowl
Because my guest is coming."
Gretel put the fowl on spits over the fire
Turning them so that they would be perfect,
Roasting evenly
Toasting evenly,
Yes, cooking the fowl evenly
So that they