It is explained briefly with animated pictures.

1. Ogden Nash
Presented by
Berachah Babu A

2. Berachah Babu A
Born: 19 August 1902, Rye, New
York, United States
Died: 19 May 1971, The Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore,
Maryland, United States
Spouse: Frances Rider Leonard
(m. 1931–1971)
Movies: The Firefly, The Shining
Hour, The Feminine Touch, The
Wizard of Oz, Poezija Ogdena
Neša

3. Berachah Babu A
Belinda lived in a little white house,
With a little black kitten and a little grey mouse,
And a little yellow dog and a little red wagon,
And a realio, trulio, little pet dragon.
Words meaning
Kitten : a young cat
Realio : really
Trulio : truly
Belinda a little girl who lived in a small house ,with a black kitten, grey coloured
mouse and yellow coloured dog in a wagon. Really truly she had a Dragon as a
pet.

4. Berachah Babu A
Now the name of the little black kitten was Ink,
And the little grey mouse, she called him Blink,
And the little yellow dog was sharp as Mustard,
But the dragon was a coward, and she called him
Custard.
Words meaning
Grey: its colour Mustard:
The name of the small kitten is Ink. The name of the mouse is Blink. And the
dog was very sharp like a mustard seed , so it’s name is mustard. The dragon
was coward and its name is custard.

5. Berachah Babu A
Mustard
Ink
Blink
Custard
Belinda
Characters

6. Berachah Babu A
Custard the dragon had big sharp teeth,
And spikes on top of him and scales
underneath,
Mouth like a fireplace, chimney for a nose,
And realio, trulio daggers on his toes.
Words meaning
Kitten : a young cat
Dagger:
Spike
s
Scale
s
Chimne
y

7. Berachah Babu A
Belinda was as brave as a barrel full of bears,
And Ink and Blink chased lions down the stairs
Mustard was as brave as a tiger in a rage,
But Custard cried for a nice safe cage.
brave
courageous brave
coward
Words meaning
barrel full of bears: a person without fear

8. Berachah Babu A
Belinda tickled him, she tickled him unmerciful,
Ink, Blink and Mustard, they rudely called him
Percival,
They all sat laughing in the little red wagon
At the realio, trulio, cowardly dragon.
Words meaning
Tickle : moved finger on the sensible
part of the body
Rudely : in a rude manner
Percival: a hero
Belinda tickled the dragon unmercifully. The cat and rat rudely called the dragon
as a hero. All together laughed at dragon telling it is really a coward.

9. Berachah Babu A
Belinda giggled till she shook the house,
And Blink said Weeck! which is giggling for a
mouse,
Ink and Mustard rudely asked his age,
When Custard cried for a nice safe cage.
Words meaning
Giglled: laughing
Weeck : giggled like a mouse
Rudly : an insulting manner
Belinda laughed happily and the Blink laughed Weeck! The ink and mustard
rudely asked dragon’s age. But the dragon cried for the safe cage.

10. Berachah Babu A
Suddenly, suddenly they heard a nasty sound,
And Mustard growled, and they all looked around.
Meowch! cried Ink, and ooh! cried Belinda,
For there was a pirate, climbing in the winda.
Words meaning
Nasty : bad
Growled: make a low rough noise
Meowch : cry like a cat
Pirate : a sea robber
Winda : a passage in the wall for
the for the fresh air and sunlight
Suddenly they heard a frightful sound , Mustard the dog growled , all others
were looking around. The cat cried Meowch and Belinda cried hoo. On the
other side the robber was climbing through the window.

11. Berachah Babu A
Pistol in his left hand, pistol in his right,
And he held in his teeth a cutlass bright,
His beard was black, one leg was wood;
It was clear that the pirate meant no good.
Words meaning
Cutlass: dagger
Meant no good: His intention was
not good
The robber had pistol in his right and left hand. And also holding a sharp knife in
his mouth . He had black beard and one leg was wooden. Its very clear his
intention was very bad.

12. Berachah Babu A
Belinda paled, and she cried Help! Help!
But Mustard fled with a terrified yelp,
Ink trickled down to the bottom of the household,
And little mouse Blink strategically mouseholed
Words meaning
Paled : faded dull
Fled : ran away
Yelp : cry
Trickled : to reached
Strategically : as situation demanded
Mouseholed : entered the hole
Belinda became nervous and cried for a help. The dog ran with terrific cry. The
cat ran towards bottom of the house . The rat used the situation and stayed in
its house.

13. Berachah Babu A
But up jumped Custard, snorting like an engine,
Clashed his tail like irons in a dungeon,
With a clatter and a clank and a jangling squirm,
He went at the pirate like a robin at a worm
Words meaning
Snorting : making the sound of an engine
Clashed : struck
Dungeon : prison
Clatter and clank: making rattling sound
Jangling : metallic sound
Squirm : wriggle
The dragon snorting like an engine jumped up. Its tail stood like a prion’s iron
road in front of the robber. It came with rattling and jingle sound. The dragon
came like a robin (bird) at the warm.

14. Berachah Babu A
The pirate gaped at Belinda’s dragon,
And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon,
He fired two bullets, but they didn’t hit,
And Custard gobbled him, every bit.
Words meaning
Gape : watched intently
Gulped : drank down
Grog : wine
Flagon : a narrow container
Gobbled : swallowed
The robber watched the dragon and took a flagon from his pocket and drank
wine. And fired twice on the dragon but it did not hit him. The dragon swallowed
the robber at once.

15. Berachah Babu A
Belinda embraced him, Mustard licked him,
No one mourned for his pirate victim.
Ink and Blink in glee did gyrate
Around the dragon that ate the pirate.
Words meaning
Embraced : held tightly in arms
Lick : licked with tongue
Mourned : express grief
Victim : prey
Glee : happiness
Gyrate : danced around
Belinda hugged the dragon, the Mustard licked him. No one bothered about the
robber. The rat and cat were happily jumping around the dragon.

16. Berachah Babu A
But presently up spoke little dog Mustard,
I’d have been twice as brave if I hadn’t been flustered.
And up spoke Ink and up spoke Blink,
We’d have been three times as brave, we think,
And Custard said, I quite agree
That everybody is braver than me.
Words meaning
Presently : now
Flustered : became
nervous
Quite : completely
The dog spoke I am double the braver than you ,if I have not become nervous.
The rat and cat said we are thrice the braver than you. The dragon interfered
and said I agree that all are braver than me.

17. Berachah Babu A
Belinda still lives in her little white house,
With her little black kitten and her little grey mouse,
And her little yellow dog and her little red wagon,
And her realio, trulio little pet dragon.
Belinda is as brave as a barrel full of bears,
And Ink and Blink chase lions down the stairs,
Mustard is as brave as a tiger in a rage,
But Custard keeps crying for a nice safe cage.
OGDEN NASH