Does Anyone Know the Poem What happened to Charles It starts with. Now Charles had been brought up with care at number 12 Begonia Square?

Answer 1

Now Charles had been brought up with care

At Number 12 Begonia Square,

And taught while still extremely young

Not to misuse the English tongue.

No words unfit for him to hear

Had ever reached his sheltered ear-

For instance, such disgusting slang

As "Gosh" and "Golly," "Blow" and "Hang."

Imagine, therefore, what a pang

His learned father felt one day

When Charles distinctly said, "Okay."

"Charles!" cried his father in amaze,

"Where did you learn that vulgar phrase?

Refrain from using it, I pray."

And meekly Charles replied, "Okay."

The horrid habit grew and grew:

It seemed the only word he knew.

Whatever he was asked to do-

To eat or drink, to work or play-

All Charles could answer was "Okay."

At last his father took him to

That interesting place, the Zoo,

And most politely asked to see

The Head Curator, Mr. B.

"I wish," he said in accents pleasant,

"To make the Zoo a little present.

Your parrot-house, as I have heard,

Has ample room for one more bird.

Then take, I beg, this creature here,

Whose squawking grates upon my ear."

"Delighted!" Mr. B. replied.

"One of our birds has lately died.

I'll just take down his name and age . . . .

Keeper! Conduct him to his cage."

So now, whene'er the weather's fine,

His brothers, Claude and Constantine,

Are brought on Sundays, after Church,

To look at Charles upon his perch.

"Observe, before it is too late,

Your disobedient brother's fate,

And see how vulgar catchwords can

Transform a little gentleman."

"Yes, yes, Papa," the boys reply,

While wicked Charles pretends to cry.

But after they have gone away

He cocks his head and screams "Okay!"

Answer 2

Yes he was taught never to say OK