Alligator and Boy + 

This is a true tale and no yarn, + 

Our boys bathed in Hoxa Tarn; + 

But for long they had spectator, + 

Eager, watching alligator. + 

He wished to make an example + 

With fattest boy for a sample, + 

So that the lads no more would fool, + 

’Nor play around his favorite pool. + 

His fierce assaults the boys did warn, + 

But they resolved to hold the Tarn, + 

As they expertly all could swim; + 

For time, they out-manoeuvred him. + 

But they knew sooner or later, + 

They would be caught by alligator; + 

So strategy they did employ, + 

And they rigged up a seeming boy. + 

He thought, “I here bear sovereign rule, + 

No boy shall trespass in my pool; + 

So now I will enforce my laws, + 

And crunch him quick between my jaws.” + 

He ope’d his mouth, the earth did shake, + 

Was it thunder bolt or earthquake? + 

For there was scattered far and wide + 

Grease and alligator’s hide. + 