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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343921" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Bush Lawyer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Ironbark the turtle came to Anthony's lagoon <br>The hills were hid behind a mist of equinoctal rain, <br>The ripple of the rivulets was like a cheerful tune <br>And wild companions waltzed among the grass as tall as grain. <br>But Ironbark the turtle cared no whit for all of these; <br>The ripple of the rivulets, the rustle of the trees <br>Were only apple sauce to him, or just a piece of cheese. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, Dan-di-dan the water rat was exquisitely dressed, <br>For not a seal in Bass's Straits had half as fine a coat, <br>And every day he combed and brushed his golden-yellow vest, <br>A contrast with the white cravat he wore beneath his throat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Dan-di-dan the water rat could move with ease and grace, <br>So Ironbark appeared to him a creature out of place, <br>With iron-plated overcoat and dirty little face. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A crawfish at the point of death came drifting down the drains. <br>Said he, "I'm scalded to the heart with bathing near the bore." <br>The turtle and the water rat disputed his remains, <br>For crawfish meat all day they'd eat, and then they'd ask for more. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said Dan-di-dan, "The prize is mine, for I was fishing here <br>Before you tumbled down the bank and landed on your ear." <br>"I wouldn't care," the turtle said, "if you'd have fished a year." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Baggy-beak the Pelican was asked to arbitrate; <br>The scales of justice seemed to hang beneath his noble beak. <br>He said, "I'll take possession of the subject of debate"; <br>He stowed the fish inside his pouch and then began to speak. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"The case is far from clear," he said, "and justices of note" -- <br>But here he snapped his beak and flapped his piebald overcoat -- <br>"Oh dear," he said, "that wretched fish has slithered down my throat." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"But still," he said, "the point involved requires a full debate. <br>I'll have to get the lawyer birds and fix a special day. <br>Ad interim I rule that costs come out of the estate." <br>And Baggy-beak the Pelican got up and flew away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So both the pair who went to law were feeling very small. <br>Said they, "We might have halved the fish and saved a nasty brawl; <br>For half a crawfish isn't much, but more than none at all."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343921" data-title="A Bush Lawyer de Andrew Barton Paterson" data-description="When Ironbark the turtle came to Anthony's lagoon The hills were hid behind a mist of equinoctal rain, The ripple of the rivulets was like a cheerful tune And wild companions waltzed among the grass as tall as grain. But Ironbark the turtle ca..."></div> </div> </div>
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