As for the rhinoceros, in token of their grateful adherence, they had him killed and stuffed directly, and then set him up outside the door of their father’s house as a diaphanous door-scraper.
Edward Lear.
The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple
[From “Nonsense Stories.”]
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
In former days—that is to say, once upon a time—there lived in the Land of Gramble-blamble seven families. They lived by the side of the great Lake Pipple-popple (one of the seven families, indeed, lived in the lake), and on the outskirts of the city of Tosh, which, excepting when it was quite dark, they could see plainly. The names of all these places you have probably heard of; and you have only not to look in your geography books to find out all about them.
Now, the seven families who lived on the borders of the great Lake Pipple-popple were as follows in the next chapter.
CHAPTER II
THE SEVEN FAMILIES
There was a family of two old parrots and seven young parrots.
There was a family of two old storks and seven young storks.