When the first magpie
discovered how to fly,
he said, ‘This beats walking,
and talking nineteen to the dozen’,
as he flew around the heads
of the other magpies.
.
He was flying around and around
and then he said,
‘It’s better than walking upon the ground.
.
One of the magpies said,
to the magpie flying overhead,
‘How do you do?’
.
‘How do you do?’ replied the flying magpie.
.
‘No. How do you do,
that thing you do,
up in the air, there?’
.
‘Well…’ said the flying magpie,
‘I was walking along, I tripped,
and fell,
fell into the air!
I don’t quite know
how I got there –
in a panic I flapped my things;
I think that I
will call them… wings!’
.
The other magpies continued to look,
and many was the frown,
.
‘Hmm’, said one magpie to another,
I’m just a little worried,
about how he’s getting down!’
Graeme Sandford 