Cassell's Weekly
Title: “The Centipede’s Dilemma”
Medium: poem
Publication date: 1871
Publisher: Cassell & Company
2 characters in this story:
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centipede [confused when asked "which leg comes after which?"] |
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toad [confused centipede, asking it which leg comes after which] |
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The poem "The Centipede's Dilemma" first appeared in a section titled "Pinafore Poems" (sometimes misspelled "Pinafore Peoms"), in the publication Cassell's Weekly in 1871.
A centipede was happy -- quite!
Until a toad in fun
Said, "Pray, which leg moves after which?"
This raised her doubts to such a pitch,
She fell exhausted in the ditch
Not knowing how to run.
