One hen (repeat)

One hen, two ducks (repeat)

One hen, two ducks, three squawking geese (repeat)

One hen, two ducks, three squawking geese, four limerick oysters (repeat)

One hen, two ducks, three squawking geese, four limerick oysters, five corpulent porpoises (repeat)

 

Continue and add (one at a time)

 

Six pairs of Don Alverso's tweezers

 

Seven thousand Macedonians in full dress battle array

 

Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt

 

Nine apathetic, sympathetic, diabetic old men on roller skates with a marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth

 

Ten conical, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep who haul, stall around the cores of the quo, of the quay, of the quivy all at the same time!

-Nashua Valley/Pioneer Valley Pow Wow 1996