Sleepy Granther often thinks He must take just "forty winks." Jimmy counted them one day: -- First wink, glasses put away. Second wink, upon his head Red bandana is outspread. Third to tenth winks, by degrees Granther settles at his ease In his chair. Eleventh wink, Granther's eyes begin to blink. Twelfth, he folds his arms, and then (Thirteenth) down they go again! Fourteen to twenty, Jimmy said, Those were nods of Granther's head. Twenty-one, his head's at rest, Finally, upon his breast. Twenty-two to thirty-nine (Jimmy's statement, and not mine!) Those eighteen, no less, no more, Each one was a separate snore. Then -- the fortieth wink, exact -- Granther woke. And that's a fact! |