"One hen, two ducks, three squawking geese, four . . ."

[panache45]

I remember hearing this many, many years ago. Could someone complete it (I believe it went to 10), and does anyone know the origin?

[Ankh_Too]

The history of it can be found on the Jerry Lewis Museum : Fan Club : Announcer Test

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One hen

Two ducks

Three squawking geese

Four limerick oysters

Five corpulent porpoises

Six pair of Don Alversos tweezers

Seven thousand Macedonians in full 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 lyrical, spherical diabolical denizens of the deep who hall stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the quivery, all at the same time. **

I remember my father reciting this just recently as an illustration of learning something entirely useless 40 years ago and still remembering it to this day.

[screech-owl]

Fascintating, but what are a ‘quo’ and a ‘quivery’?
Not in any of my dictionaries.