"You talk of snakes," said Jack the Rat, "But, blow me, one hot summer, I seen a thing that knocked me flat— Fourteen foot long, or more than that, It was a regular hummer! Lay right along a sort of bog, Just like a log! "The ugly thing was lyin' there And not a sign o' movin', Give any man a nasty scare; Seen nothin' like it anywhere Since I first started drovin'. And yet it didn't scare my dog. @3Looked@1 like a log! "I had to cross that bog, yer see, And bluey I was humpin'; But wonderin' what that thing could be A-layin' there in front o' me I didn't feel like jumpin'. Yet, though I shivered like a frog, It @3seemed@1 a log! "I takes a leap and lands right on The back of that there whopper!" He stopped. We waited. Then Big Mac Remarked, "Well, then, what happened, Jack?" "Not much," said Jack, and drained his grog. "It @3was@1 a log!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ASSUNPINK AND PRINCETON [JANUARY 3, 1777] by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH TO R. B. by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS HELTER SKELTER; OR, THE HUE AND CRY AFTER THE ATTORNEYS by JONATHAN SWIFT PESSIMIST AND OPTIMIST by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH EIGHT VOLUNTEERS by LANSING C. BAILEY THE INTREPID MARINER by WILLIAM ROSE BENET TRANSFORMATION by BEATRICE JEAN K. BOROFF |