I wish I lived in a caravan.

With a horse to drive, like a pedlar-man!

Where he comes from nobody knows,

Or where he goes to, but on he goes!

His caravan has windows two,

With a chimney of tin. that the smoke comes through;

He has a wife, with a baby brown.

And they go riding from town to town.

'Chairs to mend and delf to sell!'

He clashes the basins like a bell;

Tea-trays. baskets ranged in order,

Plates with the alphabet round the border!

The roads are brown. and the sea is green.

But his house is just like a bathing-machine;

The world is round. and he can ride,

Rumble and splash, to the other side!

With the pedlar-man I should like to roam,

And write a book when I come home:

All the people would read mg book,

Just like the Travels of Captain Cook!

1. pedlar: (mostly in the post) a person who travels from place to place selling small things
2. delf: delft pottery that looks shiny white, usually painted blue with beautiful designs
3. bathing-machine: a covered cart with wheels that people used in earlier days to Change into their swimming costumes before going into the sea to swim
4. rumble: discover
5. Captain Cook: Captain James Cook, a famous British explorer from the eighteenth century