This is the way I heard it at age 10:
One good hen
Two ducks
Three squawking geese
Four plump partridges
Five limerick oysters
Six pair of Don Alphonso tweezers
Seven hundred Macedonian horsemen in full battle array
Eight sympathetic, apathetic, diabetic old men on crutches
Nine brass monkeys from the sacred sepulchers of ancient Egypt
Ten heliotropic, heliotrophs from the eelemosanary institute.