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The Three Farmers
Down in the valley there were three farms The owners of these farms had done well They were rich men They were also nasty men All three of them were about as nasty and is, Farmer Bunce and Farmer Bean
Boggis was a chicken farmer He kept thousands of chickens He was enormously fat This was because he ate three boiled chickens ss every day for breakfast, lunch and supper
Bunce was a duck-and-goose fareese He was a kind of pot-bellied dwarf He was so short his chin would have been underwater in the shallow end of any swioose-livers Hepaste and then stuffed the paste into the doughnuts This diet gave him a tummy-ache and a beastly temper
Bean was a turkey-and-apple farmer He kept thousands of turkeys in an orchard full of apple trees He never ate any food at all Instead, he drank gallons of strong cider which he made from the apples in his orchard He was as thin as a pencil and the cleverest of them all
'Boggis and Bunce and Bean
One fat, one short, one lean
These horrible crooks
So different in looks
Were none the less equally mean'
That is what the children round about used to sing when they saw them
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Mr Fox
On a hill above the valley there was a wood
In the wood there was a huge tree
Under the tree there was a hole
In the hole lived Mr Fox and Mrs Fox and their four Small Foxes
Every evening as soon as it got dark, Mr Fox would say to Mrs Fox, 'Well, , what shall it be this tioose from Bunce? Or a nice turkey from Bean?' And when Mrs Fox had told him what she wanted, Mr Fox would creep down into the valley in the darkness of the night and help himself
Boggis and Bunce and Bean knew very as going on, and it ive anything away Less still did they like anything to be stolen froun and hide in a dark place so to catch the robber
But Mr Fox was too clever for the in his face, and thisin the shadows ahead, the ould carry the smell of that is was hiding behind his Chicken House Number One, Mr Fox would se direction, heading for Chicken House Number Four at the other end of the farm