The Cat on the Mat is Flat (5 page)

Pinky Ponky's tail was shonky.

Pinky Ponky's leg was wonky.

Pinky Ponky's brain was bonky.

FROG
ON A
LOG
IN A
BOG

There once was a frog

who lived in a bog.

The frog rode around

on a jet-rocket log.

There was no faster

frog in the bog.

But then one day

while riding its log

the frog looked up

and saw a dog.

The dog

was riding

a jet-rocket cog.

‘My cog is faster

than your boggy old log,'

said the dog on a cog

to the frog on a log.

‘My log is faster

than your rusty old cog,'

said the frog on a log

to the dog on a cog.

‘We'll see about that!'

said the dog on a cog.

‘I challenge you, frog,

to a race round the bog!'

‘I agree!' said the frog.

‘It's you and your cog

versus me and my log ...

and I'm going

to beat you,

Dog-on-a-cog.'

But just then

along came

the boss

of the bog:

a big fat hairy

slob of a hog.

‘STOP!' said the hog
to the dog and the frog.
‘Racing is NOT
allowed in my bog!
Not on a log!
Not on a cog!
No log-racing frogs!
No cog-racing dogs!
Do you hear me,
Frog-on-a-log?
Do you hear me,
Dog-on-a-cog?'

But the dog and the frog

just laughed at the hog—