| Clue | Missing Words | # of Words |
| I am the very model of a | |
| I've information vegetable, | |
| I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights | |
| From Marathon to Waterloo, in order | |
| I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters | |
| I understand equations, both the simple and | |
| About binomial theorum I'm teeming with a | |
| With many cheerful facts about the | |
| I'm very good at integral and differential | |
| I know the scientific names of beings | |
| In short, in matters vegetable, | |
| I am the very model of a | |
| I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and | |
| I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for | |
| I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of | |
| In conics I can floor peculiarities | |
| I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerald Dows and | |
| I know the croaking chorus from the | |
| | Clue | Missing Words | # of Words |
| Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's | |
| And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense | |
| Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic | |
| And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's | |
| In short, in matters vegetable, | |
| I am the very model of a | |
| In fact, when I know what is meant by 'mamelon' and | |
| When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a | |
| When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more | |
| And when I know precisely what is meant by | |
| When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern | |
| When I know more of tactics than a novice in a | |
| In short, when I've a smattering of elemental | |
| You'll say a better Major-General has never | |
| For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and | |
| Has only been brought down to the beginning of the | |
| But still in matters vegetable, | |
| I am the very model of a | |
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